Ryan v. Orient Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably McAllister v. Benjamin (1923), Shea v. Pilette (1937)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 35 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 McClarty v. Bickel · Closson v. Staples · Spaulding v. Mutual Life Insurance · Barron v. Mason · Powell v. Merrill
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is of public concern that a citizen having reason to believe, or even suspect, that a crime has been committed, be permitted to direct the attention of the prosecuting officer towards its investigation, without exposure to the peril of being held liable for malicious prosecution in case of a failure of conviction.”
1 later decision 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.