Ryan v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Mooney v. Harlin (1981), Bauman v. Centex Corp. (1980)
8 federal appellate · 18 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 Quinn v. Press · Ruebeck v. Hunt · Broussard v. Moon · Reynolds-Southwestern Corp. v. Dresser Industries, Inc. · Long v. Smith
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the statute would begin to run when plaintiff knew of the alleged wrongdoing or knew of facts sufficient to exercise such inquiry as would have been made in the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
2 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.