Ricks v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1977
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Myers v. Thomas · International & G. N. R'y Co. v. Nicholson · Johnson v. Willoughby · Bolton v. Stewart · Thornton v. Daniel
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That heretofore, to-wit, on or about the 11th day of September, A.D. 1945, the plaintiff entered into a certain agreement or contract with the defendant whereby der fendant agreed to transport certain furniture and household goods, dishes, utensils, and other items of personal property from Houston, Harris County, Texas, to Austin, Travis County, Texas, in consideration of plaintiff’s agreement to pay the defendant the sum of $111.74. By the terms of said contract it was agreed by the defendant that said goods would be shipped from Houston, Texas, to Austin, Texas, in one of defendant’s vans or trucks and delivered to the plaintiff herein at 501 East 11th Street in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, and it was further agreed by and between the plaintiff and defendant that if after such goods reached Austin, Texas, and the. same could not be immediately .delivered to plaintiff at said address, that such goods be stored in defendant’s warehouse, or regular place of storage on East 4th. . Street 'in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas. Defendant represented to this plaintiff that such warehouse was a bonded and fireproof warehouse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ricks v. Thielepape
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.