Cook v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 558 So. 2d 349 - Pursue Energy Corp. v. Perkins (1990), Aultman v. Kelly (1959)
47 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 Gibson v. Chouteau · Reynolds v. Shaver · Federal Land. Bank of N.O. v. Cooper · McDonough & Co. v. Martin · Barataria Canning Co. v. Ott
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A true statement as to the present intention of a party with regard to his future act is not the foundation upon which an estoppel may be built. A person cannot be bound by any rule of morality or good faith, not to change his intention nor can he be precluded from showing such change merely because he has previously represented that his intentions were once different from those which he eventually executed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he language employed in the exception is merely explanatory of the grantors' present purpose or reason for not then conveying the minerals to their grantee Goss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is also excepted from this conveyance all oil, gas and mineral deposits on said lands, which the grantors hereto have promised to convey to [their son].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.