Richardson v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
49 F. 888 · 1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1973
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Grymes v. Sanders · Slaughter's Administrator v. Gerson · McKnight v. Taylor · Creath's Administrator v. Sims · Société Foncière et Agricole des États Unis v. Milliken
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The burden of proof is upon the plaintiff. The bill charges fraud, and a reformation of the articles of dissolution is sought. To entitle the plaintiff to relief, the proof should be free from all doubts, and convincing; but they do not appear so to be, to us. Taking the proofs as a whole, this much can be safely said: That the evidence is not so clear and satisfactory as to justify a decree sustaining the charge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richardson v. Walton
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.