Ryan v. Spaniol’s Empirical Analysis
193 F.2d 551 · 1951
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2003
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Stone v. White · Kalb v. Feuerstein · United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co. · Atlantic Coast Line Co v. State of Florida State of Florida · William Cary and Samuel Cary v. Edward Curtis
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although an action for money had and received is one at law, it is in the nature of a suit in equity and is governed by equitable principles. It may be maintained when a person has in his possession money belonging to another which in equity and good conscience he ought to pay over to the claimant. The action is founded upon the principle that a person should not be unjustly enriched at the expense of another. * * * ””
1 later decision 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.