Farwell v. Horton’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1995
10 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 Hake v. People · Leopold v. People · Court Rose No. 12, Foresters of America v. Corna · Armour Grain Co. v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad · 238 Ill. App. 142 - People v. Saylor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Of course a party cannot be guilty of contempt of court for disobeying an order which the court had no authority of law to make but if a court has jurisdiction of the parties and legal authority to render the order, then it must be obeyed even though it was erroneous or improvidently entered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Critelli v. Tidrick
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.