Ryan v. Fergusson’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1970 · most notably Yiatchos v. Yiatchos (1964), United States v. Overman (1970)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Grignon's Lessee v. Astor · Julia Thompson Tenant v. Alice Tolmie · Florentine v. Barton · Lalanne's Heirs v. Moreau · Perkins v. Fairfield
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... one-half of the community property shall go to the survivor, subject to the community debts, and the other half shall be subject to the testamentary disposition of the deceased husband or wife, subject also to the community debts....”
2 later decisions 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.