Ryker v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Bardwell v. Commissioner (1962), Thompson v. Commissioner (1968)
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 Campbell v. Lake · Hogg v. Commissioner · 66 Cal. App. 2d 535 - Kohl v. Kohl · Nathan v. Commissioner · Brown v. Commissioner
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.
“and not upon any labels that may or may not have been placed upon them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“periodic payments * * * in discharge of * * * a legal obligation * * * [arising out] of the marital or family relationship.”
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.