Farr v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Crawford v. Carlisle (1921), Braley v. Spragins (1930)
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 Sharp v. Hall · Horton v. Sledge · Daniel v. Hill · Newell v. Woodruff · Hall v. Burkham
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.
“* * * that my said wife, Sarah, shall have a life estate and interest in said lands first; then said lands to descend and be inherited and enjoyed by our youngest son then alive and his lawful children. But in case of his death without lawful children, the residue or remainder interest to descend and be enjoyed by my next youngest son then alive and his lawful children forever, and in the event of the death of all my sons during the life of my wife, Sarah, then I give my said lands to my said daughter then living and to her heirs forever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Pearson“sons (of whom there were three) without surviving children lawfully begotten,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Pearson“to him and to his lawful heirs or children forever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. Pearson
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.