Ryan v. Thurston’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Maryland Metals, Inc. v. Metzner (1978), Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Kenney (1991)
106 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 22 Md. App. 115 - Jacober v. High Hill Realty, Inc. · 15 Md. App. 503 - Colburn v. Colburn · A. S. Abell Co. v. Skeen · Burhans v. Burhans · Delmarva Drilling Co. v. Tuckahoe Shopping Center, Inc.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an action has been tried without a jury, the appellate court will review the case on both the law and the evidence. It will not set aside the judgment of the trial court on the evidence unless clearly erroneous, and will give due regard to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept and be bound by findings of fact of the lower court unless they are clearly erroneous. The appellate court must consider evidence produced at the trial in a light most favorable to the prevailing party and if substantial evidence was presented to support the trial court’s determination, it is not clearly erroneous and cannot be disturbed. The trial court is not only the judge of a witness’ credibility, but is also the judge of the weight to be attached to the evidence. It is thus plain that the appellate court should not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court on its findings of fact but will only determine whether those findings are clearly erroneous in light of the total evidence. [ 276 Md. 390, 392 , 347 A. 2d 834, 835-36 (1975) (citations omitted). 2 ]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether the operator of an automobile was confronted with an emergency, and whether he acted negligently under the circumstances, are generally questions for the jury”
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.