Richardson v. Belknap’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1988
3 federal appellate · 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 Board of County Commissioners v. Bish · Miller v. Ouray Electric Light and Power Co. · People ex rel. Lamar Publishing Co. v. Hoag · Lamphier v. Karch · Bolland v. Gihlstore
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Applying the rule thus announced in the two Colorado cases above cited, it necessarily follows that since the duty the defendants are charged with violating or having violated is a duty to the public, the plaintiff cannot maintain an action against them on his own behalf.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liber v. Flor““ * * * the defendants, who were county commissioners, ‘carelessly and negligently failed to erect or build on said bridge any stationary, permanent or safe railings, and carelessly and negligently failed to keep the railings on said bridge in repair.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liber v. Flor““It must certainly be an anomalous doctrine that would exempt the corporation itself from liability for the doing of a lawful act in a negligent manner . . . and at the same time affix a liability upon its agent for precisely the same acts. ...””
1 later decision 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.