Richardson v. McChesney’s Empirical Analysis
218 U.S. 487 · 1910
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1999 · most notably Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission (1911), Poe v. Ullman (1961)
58 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Mills v. Green · McPherson v. Blacker · Jones v. Montague · United States Bernardin v. Butterworth
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of the court is limited to the decision of actual pending controversies and it should not pronounce judgment upon abstract questions, however such opinion might influence future action in like circumstances.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The thing sought to be prevented has been done, and cannot be undone by any judicial action. Under such circumstances, there is nothing but a moot case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunlop v. Baker
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.