Farmer v. First Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
246 F. 671 · 1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1984
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Schumaker v. Heinemann · Von Heyne v. Tompkins · Carpenter Steel Co. v. Norcross · Loos v. Geo. Walter Brewing Co. · Thomas v. Beaver Dam Manufacturing Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is urged that the evidence shows no harm to the business * * * The sentry sleeping at his post is not less derelict in duty if, haply, disaster does not follow; nor is the responsible employe's disloyalty or insubordination measured by the extent of the resultant harm to the employer, nor minimized if none happens to follow.”
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.