People v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 30 Cal. 2d 388 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission (1947), People v. Decina (1956)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 Smith v. . the People · Surace v. Danna · People, Ex Rel. Wood v. . Lacombe · Matter of Meyer · Matter of Livingston
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In the interpretation of statutes, the spirit and purpose of the act and the objects to be accomplished must be considered. The legislative intent is the great and controlling principle. Literal meanings of words are not to be adhered to or suffered to”
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.