Farrell v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1989
11 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 Snyder v. Pitts · Duncan v. Willis · Oliphint v. Christy · Stratton v. Hall · Lightner v. McCord
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think when the legislature used the term ‘residence’ of the wife, it meant the legal residence of the wife and not merely where she might physically reside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cavallin v. Ivey“Alvin became their residence only when they moved to Alvin and commenced living there with the intention to make it their home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. Thetford
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.