State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
16 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Tebbe v. Smith · State ex rel. Biggs v. Corley · Tuthill v. Rendelman · Hammond v. Love
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appear[ed] before the [state house of representatives] armed with a certificate indicating his election, that body would still have the exclusive right to determine whether he was a duly elected member”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feehan v. Marcone“presentation of the certificate would bring the question before [that body] and would be pertinent evidence for its consideration in determining [the plaintiff's] rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feehan v. Marcone““The 101 ballots in envelopes not signed by both clerks, when voted, were illegal and should have been rejected by the election officers in making the count.””
1 later decision 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.