Richardson v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2011
1 district · 11 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 Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · California Department of Human Resources Development v. Java · Kennerly v. District Court of the Ninth Judicial District of Montana · Shaw v. Railroad Co. · Ethel Javins v. First National Realty Corporation, Rudolph Saunders v. First National Realty Corporation, Stanley Gross v. First National Realty Corporation
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a personal representative's primary function is to distribute the estate in the most favorable manner for the benefit of the heirs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.