Farrell v. Haze’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 1936
20 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 Halsey v. . Sinsebaugh · Tubbs v. Dwelling-House Insurance · Fisher v. Kyle · Pelky v. Palmer · Weaver v. Bromley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question whether the loss of the plaintiff’s foot was attributable to anything that the plaintiff claims the defendant did or omitted to do is a scientific question, which the jury cannot determine for itself, and can only be answered by an expert; and, inasmuch as no expert or medical man or surgeon has stated that the loss of the foot, in his opinion, came from anything the defendant did or omitted to do, therefore I charge you that you cannot take the loss of the foot into consideration in this case or hold the defendant liable therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Toles
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.