Ruffner v. Love’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1930
5 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 Davis v. Wells · Davis Watertown v. Richards · Reynolds v. Douglass · Cooke v. Orne · Newman v. Streator Coal Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ This notice need not be proved to have been given in writing, or in any particular form, but may be inferred by the jury from facts and circumstances which will warrant such inference.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hickox v. Fels
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.