Colbert v. Ricker’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Mounsey v. Ellard (1973), Murrell v. Handley (1957)
25 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 Johnson v. Norcross Bros. · Nash v. Lang · Comeau v. Comeau · Freeman v. United Fruit Co. · Glaser v. Congregation Kehillath Israel
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was the owner and could at any time have taken exclusive possession herself. She was not bound to furnish her husband with a home, and she was not required to permit him to use her premises for his own personal business. That she allowed him to do so did not give him any interest in her property or make him a tenant. We think that he was occupying the property as a licensee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bernet v. Rogers
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.