Ryan v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1997
3 federal appellate · 6 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 62 W. Va. 231 - Tolley v. Poteet · Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Shupe · Roberts v. Crouse · 133 W. Va. 121 - Beard v. Callison
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Mistake as to particular private rights may be treated as a mistake of fact, or as a mixed mistake of law and fact. Private rights, ... although they are the result of rules of law, or depend on rules of law applied to the construction of legal instruments, are usually considered matters of fact."”
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.