Foley v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably Green v. Whaley (1917), Starks v. Lincoln (1927)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Basket v. Hassell · McNeil v. . the Tenth National Bank · Ridden v. . Thrall · Johnston v. Laflin · In re Estate of Soulard
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not a plain straightforward statement of a transaction witnessed by a frank person, stating the truth in such a manner as to carry weight and conviction with it. It is contradictory upon material points, uncertain in character, hesitating in delivery, and shows a.want of clear conception of what took place upon the occasion of the alleged gift. It falls far short of the weight required by the rules of evidence before mentioned, and its probative fo’rcé and convincing power is 'lacking in that same proportion. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.