Bailey v. . Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1961 · most notably Wasatch Mining Co. v. Crescent Mining Co. (1893), Morrison v. Morrison (1939)
2 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding the forty acres of land, to which William Ryder, in his answer, admits he has title, is situated out of this state, in the state of Indiana, I think that the court of chancery in this state had jurisdiction to compel him to execute such a conveyance or transfer thereof as would be sufficient to vest the legal title, as well as the possession of the land. (Mitchell v. Bunch, 2 Paige, 606 .) My conclusion, therefore, is, that that part of the decree of the court below which dismisses the bill of complaint as against the said William Ryder, with costs against the complainant, as to him should be reversed, and that the residue of the decree should be so modified as that its provisions against the defendants, . . . [who defaulted] shall apply as well against William Ryder as against them. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berger v. Loomis
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.