Farmer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2007
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cunningham v. Fontaine · Moore c. McGuire · Pearson v. Darrington · Dumas v. Hunter
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court said, in Pearson v. Darrington, 21 Ala. 169 [(1852)], that `the doctrine of relation back to a former period, is a fiction, which is often indulged in advancement of justice to sustain legal proceedings; but it is never resorted to, when the result would be to deprive a party of a clear legal right, or when it would work manifest injustice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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