Ryan v. Tudor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The death of an absent person may be presumed in less than seven years from the date of the last intelli gence from him, from facts and circumstances other than those showing his exposure to danger which probably resulted in his death. . . . Evidence of character, habits, domestic relations, and the like, making the abandonment of home and family improbable, and showing a want of all those motives which can be supposed to influence men to such acts, may be sufficient to raise the presumption of death, or from which the death of one absent and unheard from, may be inferred, without regard to the duration of such absence.’ ” (Ryan v. Tudor, 31 Kan. 366, 370 , 2 Pac. 797 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Caldwell v. Modern Woodmen

2. ““Now whether the court was right or not in its instructions, it was the duty of the jury to accept them as correct, and be guided by them; and upon a failure so to do the verdict should be set aside.” (p. 368.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dodson v. Moran