Farthing v. . Shields’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1944
11 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No woman during her coverture shall be capable of making any contract -to affect her real or personal estate except for her necessary personal expenses, or for the support of the family, or such as may be necessary in order to pay her debts existing before marriage, without the written consent of her husband,- unless she be a free trader as hereinafter allowed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would have been of no avail without privy examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Paquin.
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.