Farnum v. Colbert’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
6 district · 5 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 Washington Annapolis Hotel Co. v. Riddle · Hawthorne v. Eckerson Co. · Bratt v. Western Air Lines, Inc. · Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Hillow ex rel. American Automobile Ins. Co. · Hiltpold v. Stern
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘impute ... the commission of some criminal offense for which [the Plaintiff] may be indicted and punished, if the charge involves moral turpitude and is such as will injuriously affect [the Plaintiff’s] social standing’, or, ... the question is whether, from the language attributed to defendant, there is something from which commission of a crime can be inferred.””
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.