Ryan v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably Union Trust Co. v. Shoemaker (1913), Gumm v. Commissioner (1989)
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.
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.
““In these cases, the judgment is general against the heirs or devisees, as for their own debt, without reference to assets. But if the heirs or devisees acknowledge the action, and show the assets descended or devised to them, the judgment will be special to the extent of those assets only.””
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.