Ryan v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2021
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Mercury Investment Co. v. F.W. Woolworth Co. · Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co. · Jackson v. Jackson · Ferrell Construction Co. v. Russell Creek Coal Co. · Keizor v. Sand Springs Railway Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the practical construction of an agreement, as evidenced by the acts and conduct of the parties, is available only in the event of an ambiguity'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the court determines that the language is not ambiguous, the construction of the decree is also a matter of law for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether there is existence of ambiguity contained in the language of the decree is a decision made by the trial court.”
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.