Ryan v. Towar’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably United Zinc & Chemical Co. v. Britt (1922), City of Shawnee v. Cheek (1913)
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Union Pac Ry Co v. McDonald · Dobbins v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. · City of Pekin v. McMahon · Walsh v. Fitchburg Railroad
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““My Brother Hooker seems to be of the opinion that even though the use made of property by its owner is likely to result in injury to young children, by attracting them to a dangerous use of the property, yet, if the property be located wholly upon one’s own land, so that the child must become a trespasser, in the technical sense, before he can receive injury from the property, the owner may leave it exposed, and will not be liable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ Children, wherever they go, must be expected to act upon childish instincts and impulses; and others who are chargeable with a duty of care and caution towards them must calculate upon this, and take precautions accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ It is noticeable that even the Lynch Case did not involve a trespass upon defendant’s close, though it did perhaps involve a trespass to personal property.””
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.