Richards v. Lenz’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2024
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 Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Simmons v. United States · Jewson v. Mayo Clinic · Groseth International, Inc. v. Tenneco, Inc. · Morgan v. Baldwin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n South Dakota, when one of two statutes of limitations may be applicable, such application should always be tested by the nature of the allegations in the complaint, and if there is any doubt as to which statute applies, such doubt should be resolved in favor of the longer limitation period.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ummary judgment is a drastic remedy and should not be granted unless the moving party has established a right to a judgment with such clarity as to leave no room for controversy”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It thus appears that the Richards' claims of negligence, fraud, and breach of contract are all interwoven as allegations of the defendants' wrongful conduct. The Richards' separate complaints state a single wrong for which there can be only one recovery, although the allegations in the complaints purport to state several distinct causes of action arising from negligence, fraud or misrepresentation, or breach of contract. The Richards' claims arise out of their agreement with [West River] to provide marriage counseling and [West River's] action in assigning Lenz to provide such counseling service to the Richards. The allegations in the complaints lead to the conclusion that the gravamen of the complaints is as much based in contract as it would be in negligence or fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rehm v. Lenz
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.