Ritchey v. Gerard’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2016
15 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 Delgado v. Delgado · 93 Ind. App. 165 - Phend v. Midwest Engineering & Equipment Co. · 72 Ind. App. 628 - Smith v. Yost · 114 Ind. App. 583 - Simpson v. Fuller · 88 Ind. App. 275 - Jordan v. Kittle
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * A study of this section [21-9-16] leads us to the conclusion that the purpose and intent of the legislature, as therein expressed, is to prevent judgment from being obtained without notice or service of process by virtue of a power of attorney executed prior to the accrual of the cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.