Richardson v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1993
3 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 Barrington v. Duncan · Mrs. Baird's Bread Company v. Hearn · HJ Heinz Company v. Ashley · Wald Transfer & Storage Co. v. Randolph · Holt v. City of San Marcos
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are of the opinion that the notations tend to warrant the conclusion [that the jury elected to provide awards for only certain elements of damages in reaching its answer on total damages], but we are of further opinion that as evidence it is not such as constitutes in and of itself proof to be given cognizance by the court. Furthermore, we are of the opinion that if it should be given consideration as evidence, it would certainly not amount to conclusive proof that the jury, as part of its unanimous act, arrived at its answer by adding the two sums together.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Jackson“From what we have already said, it follows as a matter of course that there is no proof of exactly which elements the jury took into consideration in arriving at the answer it returned. We cannot speculate upon how the jury arrived at the answer, nor can we assume that it found damages as to some elements and none as to others, or that it found some damages as to each element.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Jackson
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.