Richards v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2011
8 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 Sims v. Petree · Hamilton v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No excuse for their protracted delay is offered. In the circumstances a court of equity must hold that they have slept upon their rights for such an unreasonable length of time that they are precluded from obtaining affirmative relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.