Riche v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1981
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Block v. Milwaukee Street Railway Co. · 49 La. Ann. 1184 - New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad v. McEwen & Murray, Ltd. · Bartell v. Serio · Huber v. La Crosse City Railway Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘The negligence is not the proximate cause of the1 accident, unless, * * * under all the circum-'-stances, the accident might have been reasonably foreseen by a man of ordinary intelligence and prudence. It is not enough that the, accident is the natural consequence of the negligence. * * * t » ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘A mere failure to ward against-a result- which could not have been • reasonably anticipated is not actionable negligence.’ * * * ””
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.