Ex parte McFerren’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2003
10 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 Goodman v. Winter · Badger v. Phinney · Chandler v. Simmons · Green v. . Green · Price v. Furman
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n all cases in which [an infant lessee] has been held liable for rent or in which he has been denied to recover rents paid, he has received some actual benefit from the use of the property as a tenant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The lease representing nothing that was necessary for the infant, and he, in fact, derived no benefit whatever from it.”
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.