Ryan v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1968
8 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 Stewart v. Balderston · Marsh v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co. · West v. Topeka Savings Bank · Bell v. Bank of Whitewater · Scovill v. Scovill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . They argue, also, that the statute of limitations should he raised by answer. However, it has been repeatedly held that where a petition discloses on its face that the cause of action is barred by the statute of limitations the question may be raised by demurrer to the petition. See Kansas State Bank v. Shaible, 118 Kan. 73 , 234 Pac. 40 , and many other cases noted in Hatch. Dig. Sec. 189, Lim. of Act . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byerley v. Braucher
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.