Farrell v. Farrell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
276 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 276 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Burns v. Hartford Hospital (1984), Bartha v. Waterbury House Wrecking Co. (1983)
276 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission · Plouffe v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Dougherty v. Graham · Dorazio v. M. B. Foster Electric Co.
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 276 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presence . . . of an alleged adverse claim is not sufficient to defeat a motion for summary judgment.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“recite specific facts . . . which contradict those stated in the [movant's] affidavits and documents.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[M]ere conclusions are insufficient as is evidence which would be inadmissible upon the trial, such as hearsay.”
10 later decisions 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.