Ryan v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Mif Realty Rtc v. Rochester Associates (1996), Sheng v. Starkey Laboratories, Inc. (1995)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 44 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 Jallen v. Agre · Schoenfeld v. Buker · Theis v. Theis · Albert v. Edgewater Beach Building Corp. · Held v. Keller
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhere no fraud or bad faith is shown that, if we were to allow a settlement made in open court to be reopened many months later at the whim of either party, it would create uncertainty, chaos, and confusion as to the effect of settlements in future cases. This would be an injustice both to the courts in which settlements were made and to the litigants involved, who depend upon the reliability of such settlements.”
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.