Richards v. Baum’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2025
19 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 Crookston v. Fire Insurance Exchange · Burkett v. Schwendiman · Franklin Financial v. New Empire Development Co. · Behrens v. Raleigh Hills Hospital, Inc. · 87 Ill. App. 3d 615 - Horvath v. Loesch
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.
“'An appeal is moot if during the pendency of the appeal circumstances change so that the controversy is eliminated, thereby rendering the relief requested impossible or of no legal effect'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[wlhere the issues that were before the trial court no longer exist, the appellate court will not review the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“prevent the [appellee] from legally conveying the disputed land to a third party,”
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.