Ferry v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
277 U.S. 88 · 1928
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2010 · most notably Leary v. United States (1969), Turner v. United States (1970)
10 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hess v. Pawloski · Barbier v. Connolly · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Noble State Bank v. Haskell
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.
“As a matter of law there is nothing new in charging a party with knowledge of what is his duty to know.... But the essential thing is that whether in a roundabout or a perfectly natural way [a] statute has said if you take the office you must take the consequences of knowledge whether you have it or not. In most contracts men take the risk of events over which they have imperfect or no control.”
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.