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Ryerson v. Utley’s Empirical Analysis

1868

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
11
states following
July 1944
most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1944 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), State ex rel. Attorney General v. Donald (1915)

31 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Brewster v. . City of Syracuse · The Sun Mutual Ins. Co. v. . the Mayor, C., of New York · Mewherter v. Price · Indiana Central Railway Co. v. Potts

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The constitutional provisions should receive a reasonable construction, and any provisions of the act directly or indirectly relating to the subject expressed in the title, and having a natural connection therewith, and not foreign thereto, should be deemed embraced by it.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ripley v. Evans
  2. “«The State shall not be a party to or interested in any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Wilcox v. Paddock
  3. ““No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Ripley v. Evans

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.