Richardson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2014
22 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 Goodyear v. Goodyear · Kiger v. Kiger · Story v. . Story · Murphy v. Murphy · Ingram v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff is deemed to have made an election of remedies, and therefore estopped from suing a second defendant, only if he has sought and obtained final judgment against a first defendant and the remedy granted in the first judgment is repugnant or inconsistent with the remedy sought in the second action. The purpose of the doctrine of election of remedies is to prevent more than one redress for a single wrong. One is held to have made an election of remedies when one chooses with knowledge of the facts between two inconsistent remedial rights. The doctrine does not apply to co-existing and consistent remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must necessarily repudiate or be repugnant to the other.”
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.