Commonwealth v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 57 Cal. 4th 776 - The People v. Williams (2013), Commonwealth v. Mills (2002)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Commonwealth v. Bennett · Bassett v. Nickerson · Jefferds v. Alvard · Commonwealth v. Berry · Commonwealth v. Drew
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must take it as settled that it is not larceny for a servant to convert property delivered to him by a third person for his master, provided he does so before the goods have reached their destination, or something more has happened to reduce him to a mere custodian . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roussin
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.