Richardson v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 81 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 432 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Testan (1976), Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. (1978)
129 federal appellate · 81 district · 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 United States v. Sherwood · Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Public Utilities Commission of State of California v. United States
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 432 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any other civil action or claim against the United States, not exceeding $10,000 in amount, founded either upon the Constitution, or any Act of Congress, ... or upon any express or implied contract with the United States, or for liquidated or unliq-uidated damages in cases not sounding in tort. . . . ””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Claims Court does not have the general equitable powers of a district court to grant prospective relief. Indeed, we have stated categorically that 'the Court of Claims has no power to grant equitable relief.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Federal question; amount in controversy: (a) The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil actions wherein the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000, exclusive of interest and costs, and arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.