Laffin v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1981
3 federal appellate ·
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 42 Cal. 2d 246 - People v. Ashley · Galbraith v. Busch · 16 E.H. Smith 569 - Hull v. . Littauer · Piwowarski v. Cornwell · Stocker v. Boston & Maine Railroad
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inference cannot take the place of evidence; it cannot supply a deficiency in the other party's case nor can it be regarded as proof of any essential fact. As has been said, the effect of the failure to call the witness is 'persuasive rather than probative.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Layne v. Vinzant
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.