Farrell v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1991
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 9 to 5 Fashions, Inc. v. Spurney · Moulin v. Monteleone · Ohlhausen v. Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A law that would allow a husband compensation in money for such a wrong would be revolting to a majority of men, and might tend more to encourage blackmail than to protect the home."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. Reeder
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.