Rice v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2013
17 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 New Haven Savings Bank v. Warner · Gest v. Gest · Ames v. Hillside Coal & Iron Co. · Vaszauskas v. Vaszauskas · Middletown Savings Bank v. Bacharach
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while a stranger to litigation may properly assist a poor person to assert his rights, such assistance is not permissible where the stranger is to share in the proceeds of the action. Restatement, 2 Contracts, 541; 11 C.J. 249, 36; 14 C.J.S. 368, 24. The agreement before us was one against public policy and therefore, as between the parties to it, unenforceable.”
2 later decisions 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.