Richins v. Mayfield’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably C.E. Alexander & Sons, Inc. v. DEC International, Inc. (1991), Holguin v. Elephant Butte Irrigation District (1977)
28 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 110
Relies on Pellegrino v. Nesbit · American Trust & Savings Bank v. Scobee · State Ex Rel. Lebeck v. Chavez · State Ex Rel. Gary v. Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. · State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Reese
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the applicant's interest is adequately represented by existing parties”
2 later decisions 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.