Ruch v. Ruch’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 1955
1 federal appellate · 18 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 6 Cal. App. 152 - Stewart v. Smith · Holland v. Hoyt · Farwell v. Johnston · McClure v. Otrich · Laird v. Laird
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contracts for the conveyance of land, though resting entirely in parol, have been repeatedly held by this court and others not to be within the statute of frauds where one party has executed the parol contract in whole or in part.””
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.