Goodrich v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
145 F. 844 · 1906
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1948
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Case of Broderick's Will · John Roller v. Stephen Holly · Goad v. Montgomery · Bellingham Bay Co v. City of New Whatcom · Sohler v. Sohler
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public interest requires that the estates of deceased persons, being deprived of a master, and subject to all manner of claims, should at once devolve to a new and competent ownership, and consequently that there should be some convenient jurisdiction and inode of proceeding by which the devolution may Ik* effected with least chance of injustice and fraud, and that The result obtained should be firm and perpetual.””
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.