Joseph W. Richey and Wife, Blanche Richey v. Jack E. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 1239 · 1975
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Martinson (1987), Sovereign News Co. v. United States (1982)
49 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Calandra · Linkletter v. Walker · Elkins v. United States · Di Bella 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the Government displayed a callous disregard for the constitutional rights of the movant; (2) whether the movant has an individual interest in and need for the property he wants returned; (3) whether the movant would be irreparably injured by denying return of the property; and (4) whether the movant has an adequate remedy at law for the redress of his grievance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some of the considerations that should govern the decision by the district court whether to exercise this `anomalous' jurisdiction,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the general equitable jurisdiction of the federal courts.”
4 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.