Farris v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1967 · most notably State v. Armstrong (1924), Grable v. Blackwood (1929)
26 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 Harrington v. White · State v. McKinley · Common School District No. 13 v. Oak Grove Special School District · Watkins v. Eureka Springs · Beard v. Wilson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The statute plainly confers not a mere remedy or method of procedure for enforcing a right, but it undertakes to confer a substantive right or interest. The state undertakes, in other words, to provide an interest which the surviving husband shall have in the estate of his wife upon the latter’s death. This is a right or interest sought to fee vested, and not a remedy or procedure to fee adopted in securing a declared right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Armstrong““The estate of courtesy Is hereby abolished, and hereafter, upon the death of a married woman, her surviving husband shall have in her estate the same interest that the wife has in the estate of the husband upon his death under the laws of this state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Armstrong““While section 23, art. 5, of the Constitution of Arkansas, limits legislation which grants, modifies, or destroys the rights of parties, it has no application to legislation which simply affects remedies and methods of procedure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Armstrong
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.