Ryan v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 756 · 1979
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably McGinty v. Beranger Volkswagen, Inc. (1980), Slaymaker v. Westgate State Bank (1987)
31 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation · Tcherepnin v. Knight · Duval v. Midwest Auto City, Inc. · Nieto v. Pence
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o transferor shall violate any rule prescribed under this section or give a false statement to a transferee in making any disclosure required by such rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Both the language of the statute and its history show that it has one purpose: to enable the purchaser of a motor vehicle to know how many miles the vehicle has traveled, as a guide to its safety, reliability and value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“broadly construed to effectuate its purpose,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.