Peterson v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1968
7 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 James v. Robertson · Tremelling v. Southern Pacific Co. · Ewing v. Keith · White v. Pease · Muldoon v. Brown
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do admit that we injured her hand in the operating room, but as far as money is concerned, I do not care at all about the money because the insurance company has to take care of that, but it is the publicity part of it that I don’t like.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Owens
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.