Ruch v. Biery’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Daugherty v. Rogers (1889), Fiscus v. Moore (1890)
46 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 Sherman v. Sherman · Peabody v. Peabody · Woolery v. Woolery · Dilley v. Love · Clark v. Willson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the duty of the administrator to appeal if there was reasonable ground to believe that the court had fallen into an .error in its judgment and order of distribution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ohlfest v. Rosenberg
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.