Rybolt v. Jarrett’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.2d 642 · 1940
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. The Bagley & Sewall Co. (1955), Rosier v. Garron, Inc. (1973)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 Ghilain v. Couture · Pearson v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. · 120 W. Va. 319 - Wilder v. Charleston Transit Co. · Oney v. Ferguson · 121 W. Va. 763 - Curl v. Ingram
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is some force here in the maxim Expressio unius est exclusio alterius. When in a statute of such clean cut restrictive force, the legislature undertook to make certain explicit exceptions, it seems a fair implication that the legislature intended to exclude other exceptions, and thus to make the statute say what it means and mean what it says.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The italicized words ‘or act’, we believe, must have some meaning, even if the foreign administrator is ultimately a trustee for the beneficiaries; for he is acting as a personal representative, since that is the precise term used in the Statute of Death by Wrongful Act. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person not a resident of this State . . . shall be appointed or act as executor, administrator, curator, guardian or committee. . . ." [Emphasis supplied]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.