Rickards v. Rickards’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2013
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Inhabitants of Worcester v. Eaton · Evans v. Davidson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No executory contract of sale made upon Sunday can be enforced. All parties agree to that proposition. But an executed contract though made on Sunday cannot be avoided merely because it was entered into on a dies non. A contract entered into on Sunday is a contract prohibited by the law; * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woel v. Griffith · Patton v. Graves““ '* * * in all acts which are unlawful on account of their immorality or because they are hostile to public policy, there the parties to the act are in pari delicto and potior est conditio defendentis.’ ” Id. at 141.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woel v. Griffith
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.