Ford v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2010
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 Hall v. Fullerton · Sterritt v. Young · Adams v. Gilbert · Parker v. Vinson · Clark v. Bayley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The office of a description in a deed is not to identify the lands, but to furnish the means of identification, and that a description is considered sufficiently certain which can be made certain, and that a description in a deed would be deemed sufficient if a person of ordinary prudence, acting in good faith and making inquiries suggested by the description given in such deed, would be enabled to identify the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where one having the right to accept or reject a transaction voluntarily takes and retains the benefits thereunder, he becomes 'bound by the transaction, and cannot avoid such transaction and its obligations by taking a position inconsistent therewith. Thus it has been repeatedly held that a person by accepting the benefits of a transaction may be estopped from, questioning the existence or validity of a contract.””
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.