Ruggles v. Tyson’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Cowie v. Strohmeyer (1912), Uihlein v. Uihlein (1953)
33 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 McArthur v. Scott · Hale v. Hale · Kent v. . Church of St. Michael · Gavin v. Curtin · Mead v. . Mitchell
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule they recognize being one of necessity, its scope is obviously limited by the purpose which calls for its application, that of preserving the subject and title of the estate. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Traversy v. Bell
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.