Ryan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1963
20 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 Farris v. People · Roberson v. State · Greenfield v. . People of the State of N.Y. · Griswold v. State · Lovett v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The character of the homicide and the element of premeditation may be proved by circumstantial evidence, the jury being privileged to infer the existence of premeditation and the unlawful character of the homicide from the evidence submitted as they may infer the existence of any other material element in a criminal charge. See Lovett v. State, 30 Fla. 142 , 11 South. Rep. 550 ; Barnhill v. State, 56 Fla. 16 , 48 South. Rep. 251 ; Keigans v. State, 52 Fla. 57 , 41 South. Rep. 886 ; Miller v. State, 75 Fla. 136 , 77 South Rep. 669; Dukes v. State, 14 Fla. 499 ; Robinson v. State, 69 Fla. 521 , 68 South. Rep. 649 ; 6 Ency. Evidence, p. 691.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crawford v. State
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.