Ryan v. Topeka Bridge Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1922
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There may have been abundant reason in those other grounds for setting aside the verdict, and, for aught that appears in the record, the court acted on those grounds. Even if we should examine the question presented by counsel and find error, we would still be unable to say that such erroneous ruling was the ground of disturbing the verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Diamond v. Shaw
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.