Neutzel v. Ryans’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Anderson (1947), Ross v. County Board of Education (1922)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Tatlow v. Bacon · Sams v. Sams' Administrator · Auditor v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Commonwealth v. Grinstead · Bird v. Board of Commissioners
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is-a> well settled rule of construction that the letter of a statute will not be followed when it leads to an absurd conclusion. The reason for the enactment must enter into its interpretation, so as to‘ determine what was intended to be accomplished by it. The purpose is to give effect to the legislative intent. The will of the legislature, not its words, is the law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.