Ryan v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. v. PRC Inc. (1998), State Highway Commission v. Hayes Estate (1966)
52 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 Sayers v. Bullar · Alloway v. Nashville · Appalachian Electric Power Co. v. Gorman · Stanpark Realty Corp. v. City of Norfolk · Eriksen v. Anderson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chapter 3 of Title 14 of the Virginia Code, 1950 (now Title 14.1), sets forth the costs to be taxed in litigation. As we view the section, costs therein contemplated should be confined to statutory fees to which officers, witnesses, jurors, commissioners, and others are entitled for their services. They should not be extended to every conceivable cost and expense incurred by a party engaged in litigation. The allowance of costs other than the specified costs allowed by statute is largely in the discretion of the trial court. (Italics added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Regardless of the burden of proof, the principle remains that the condemner has the burden of bringing the proceeding and going forward with the evidence. This clearly gives him the right to open and close.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Profits or losses from business are too speculative and uncertain to be considered in determining value unless attributable to the intrinsic nature of the property.”
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.