Farthing v. Farthing’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 134 N.C. App. 626 - Bueltel v. Lumber Mutual Insurance (1999), 131 N.C. App. 655 - Terrell v. Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance (1998)
31 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 Brissie v. Craig · In re Will of Puett · In Re Will of Puett · Anderson v. Atkinson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Declaratory Judgment Act ... is designed to provide an expeditious method of procuring a judicial decree construing wills, contracts and other written instruments and declaring the rights and liabilities of parties thereunder. It is not a vehicle for the nullification of such instruments. Nor is it a substitute or alternate method of contesting the validity of wills.”
3 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.