Farrington v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.2d 915 · 1929
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1965
3 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gould v. Gould · Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell · Collector v. Day · Daniel Dobbins v. Erie County · List v. Rodney
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The admission of such evidence in a case like this, where the avowed purpose of the proceeding is to cut out or strike down an estate in remainder, would or might be productive of most disastrous results. If, because of physical degeneracy, atrophy, or decay, a medical man may, in a controversy involving title to an estate, testify that a woman is incapable of bearing children, so that a trust deliberately created for her benefit during her life only may be brought to an end, with a view of vesting an absolute interest in her, or so that the vesting of a remainder may be accelerated, no one can foretell to what lengths such a precedent would lead. A surgical operation extirpating the uterus, for instance, would make it absolutely certain that no issue could be borne. If proof like that now under consideration were admitted, upon what principle could evidence showing that an operation of the kind indicated had been performed be excluded? And, if not excluded, what would prevent interested parties from resorting to such or similar operations, if by a resort to them a mere equitable life estate could be converted into an absolute interest? It is wholly immaterial whether the inability to bear children arises from natural or from artificial causes. It is not the cause, but the fact, that alone controls the question, and the single fact to which the law looks is death. "Upon a case of first impressions, as this case is, we are bound to examine and weigh the results that *Page 174”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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