Armfield v. . Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Whitacre Partnership v. Biosignia, Inc. (2004), King v. Grindstaff (1973)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“According to my Lord Coke , an estoppel is that which concludes and `shuts a man's mouth from speaking the truth.' With this forbidding introduction, a principle is announced which lies at the foundation of all fair dealing between man and man, and without which it would be impossible to administer the law as a system.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here we have facts agreed on by the parties, entered on the record, partition and decree in pursuance thereof, possession in severalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. . White
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.