Richards v. Flight’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1951
2 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 City of Ardmore v. Orr · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Strickler v. Gitchel · Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Eldridge · St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Ramsey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie facts in tlie case at bar do not disclose that plaintiff ever sustained any damage prior to the overflow complained of, and if tlie embankment in question, be it ever so negligently constructed, had been maintained for a century, the plaintiff would have had no cause of action for damages sustained until they were sustained; hence his' right of action necessarily dated from the date of his injuries.””
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.