Ryan v. . Dox’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1959 · most notably Trustees of Amherst College v. Ritch (1897), Wood v. . Rabe (1884)
2 federal appellate · 107 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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.
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one of the parties to a contract void by the statute of frauds avails himself of its invalidity, but unconscientiously appropriates what he has acquired under it, equity will compel restitution; and it constitutes no objection to the claim that the opposite party may happen to secure the same practical benefit, through the process of restitution, which would- have resulted from the observance of the void agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kincaid v. Kincaid
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.