United States v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
110 U.S. 729 · 1884
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 10 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions (38 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Logan v. United States (1892), Finley v. United States (1989)
64 federal appellate · 10 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Simpson v. Robert
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will not be inferred that the legislature, in revising and consolidating the laws, intended to change their policy, unless such intention be clearly expressed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The revisers would not have proposed, nor would Congress have made, such a fundamental change in the law . . . without employing more appropriate terms for that purpose than those which the section contains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Without an express contract of indemnity, a surety on a recognizance for the appearance of a person charged with committing a criminal offense against the laws of the United States, cannot maintain an action against the principal to recover any sums he may have been obliged to pay by reason of forfeiture of the principal, and he is not entitled to be subrogated to the rights of the United States, and to' enjoy the benefit of the government priority. “Subrogating a surety on a recognizance in a criminal case to the peculiar remedies which the government enjoys is against public policy, and tends to subvert the object and purpose of the recognizance.””
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.