In re Farrow’s Empirical Analysis
3 F. 112 · 1880
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2018
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether [a vacancy] arose during the session of the Senate, or during their recess, it equally requires to be filled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“notwithstanding the fact that the vacancy filled by his appointment first happened when the senate was in session.”
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.