People v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1968 · most notably Kercheval v. United States (1927), 61 Cal. 2d 551 - People v. Quinn (1964)
34 state decisions — followed in 11 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court may at any time before judgment upon a plea of guilty permit it to be withdrawn and a plea of not guilty substituted.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““We do not think that the legislature in passing the law under which the defendant was allowed to nullify and render fwncius officio his plea of guilty, by substituting or putting in place of it a plea of not guilty, intended to say that, notwithstanding such substitution and doing away with the first plea, it may be given in evidence and sometimes serve as the only conclusive proof of a man’s guilt under the plea'of not guilty.””
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.