Ryan v. Kingsbery’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Watkins v. Rives (1941), Carling v. Seymour Lumber Co. (1902)
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 39 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 Ex parte Hardy · Allen, Ball & Co. v. Mayor of Savannah · Marshall v. Livingston · Cobb v. Black · Doe ex dem. Truluck v. Peeples
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But if a court of equity should render a simple decree for money, on a simple money verdict, — a decree which it may now enforce by the ordinary common law process against property, the failure to pay the decree would not be a contempt, nor could compulsory process against the person of the party in default be resorted to enforce payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case of Comer y. Coates, 69 Ga. 495 , Chief Justice Jackson quite aptly refers to the insolvent traders’ act as putting a trader in bankruptcy . and relieving him from past debts as far as state legislation can do so.””
1 later decision 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.