Ryan v. Acuff’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 603 So. 2d 937 - Atkins v. Lee (1992), Preferred Risk Mut. Ins. Co. v. Ryan (1991)
36 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 374 So. 2d 1335 - Costarides v. Miller · Dorcal, Inc. v. Xerox Corp. · Cherry v. Hill · 355 So. 2d 1109 - Miller v. Dacovich · 40 Ala. App. 88 - Barnes v. Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Trial judges have wide discretion to exclude or admit evidence even of minor probative value on issues litigated in cases. The test is that the evidence must only shed light on the main inquiry, and not withdraw attention from the main inquiry."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[q]uestions of materiality, relevancy, and remoteness rest largely with the trial judge, and his rulings must not be disturbed unless his discretion has been grossly abused.”
5 later decisions 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.