Gorham v. Farson’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Utah v. United States (1932), 39 Ill. App. 3d 602 - Cochran v. Cutler (1976)
5 federal appellate · 33 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 Jenkins v. International Bank · Elder v. Derby · Parkhurst v. Race · Wight v. Gardner · Breed v. Gorham
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a creditor, in advance of an offer to pay, or in response to such offer, informs the party under obligation to pay that he will not accept the amount actually due in discharge of the indebtedness, the party under obligation to pay is relieved of the duty of tendering the amount actually due.”
2 later decisions 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.