Ruddy v. Rossi’s Empirical Analysis
248 U.S. 104 · 1918
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2009 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), United States v. City & County of San Francisco (1940)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRuddy v. Rossi
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Shively v. Bowlby · United States ex rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co. · John Pollard et al. v. John Hagan et al. · Camfield v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No lands acquired under the provisions of the homestead laws and laws supplemental and amendatory thereof shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.” (Repealed October 21, 1976.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Goff““No lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts, contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bashore v. Adolf
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.