Ryan v. . Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1961 · most notably 2 E.H. Smith 326 - Nassoiy v. . Tomlinson (1896), Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham (1891)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 10 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was due to the plaintiff a sum, certain—say $2,000, as an illustration. The defendants pay $1,500, and the plaintiff gives them a receipt in full for $2,000. If A. lends B. $2,000, and B. pays A. $1,500, which A. says, either orally or by writing, is in full of the loan, it, nevertheless, is not in full. A. may at once sue B. and recover the remaining $500. There is no consideration for the professed discharge. A man cannot by the payment of $1,500 pay an admitted debt of $2,000. This has ever been, the law.””
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.