Farnum v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2017
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 Watkins v. Peck · Thompson v. Sanborn · Merrill v. Sanborn · Tufts v. Hayes · Morse v. Child
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.
““This right it was competent for them to renounce or waive. It was no greater or more indefeasible than the right of a devisee or legatee to the devise or legacy given to him under1 a will; and it is well settled that such devise or legacy may be waived or renounced by some unequivocal act.” (p. 19.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strom v. Wood
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.