Forth v. Forth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Miller v. Ah Robins Company Inc (1985), State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Estate of Caton (1982)
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Wood v. Carpenter · HINDS, ETC. v. McNAIR · Guy v. SCHULDT · Morgan v. Koch · 152 Ind. App. 365 - Hunter 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any person liable to an action shall conceal the fact from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the action may be commenced at any time within the period of limitation after the discovery of the cause of action. 1”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the trustee must openly disavow or repudiate the trust or the beneficiary must demand the trust asset and be refused; and (2) the trustee must clearly and unequivocally set up a right and interest adverse to the beneficiary or cestui que trust, which fact is made known to the beneficiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.