Torbert v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1955
19 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 Hooper v. Birchfield · Foster v. Bush & Co. · Elrod v. Hamner · Burton v. Cefalu
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It appears that the court held, in this Hooper Case, supra [Hooper v. Birchfield, 115 Ala. 226 , 22 So. 68 ], that, if the purpose is to show no debt due, 'the facts relied on to this end should be set forth by special pleas.'”
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.