Rich v. Class’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2007
9 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 Murphy v. Carron · Rutledge v. Florida · Goodman v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. · Stephenson v. Stephenson · Southern Underwriters v. Ellis-Smith & 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) loss of evidence which would support defendant's position and (2) change of position in a way that would not have occurred but for the delay.”
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.