Rickey v. Boden’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2014
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 215A
Relies on Douglas v. Alabama · Kennedy v. Providence Hockey Club, Inc. · D'ANDREA v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. · Stevens v. Lewis · Steele v. Eaton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of assumption of risk is an affirmative defense which, when applicable, operates to absolve a defendant of liability for having created an unreasonable risk. * * * When a person voluntarily proceeds, knowing and appreciating the danger, he will be held to have assumed the risk incident to his conduct. Generally, the resolution of the issue of whether a plaintiff assumed the risk of injury is for the trier of fact. If the facts suggest only one reasonable inference, however, the issue becomes a question of law for the trial justice and may be the basis of a directed verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salmeron v. Nava
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.