State v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably Frank v. State (1949), State v. Richard (1984)
31 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 State v. Fairlamb · State v. Winters · State v. Curtis
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is danger that a jury will attach more importance to the testimony of a lawyer in a case than to an ordinary witness. The better practice would have been for the county attorney to have stepped out of the case when it became necessary for him to testify. (See Canons of Professional Ethics No. 19,135 Kan., p. iii.)” (p. 737.)”
2 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.