MacFarlane v. Farwell’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Fish v. Security-First National Bank (1948), Estate of Scherer (1943)
24 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 Cox v. Schnerr · Hotaling v. Hotaling · 19 Cal. App. 428 - Bacon v. Soule · Knight v. Tripp · In Re Estate of Nutt
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.
“confidential relations are presumed to exist between priest and parishioner,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the last stages of cancer, drugged with opiates for several weeks.”
1 later decision 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.