McFarland v. Haby’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 federal appellate · 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 Edwards County v. Jennings · Jordan v. Abney, Administrator · Williams v. Williams · Clark v. Pure Oil Co. · Home Ins. Co. of New York v. Cox
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]everability is governed by the intent of the parties, 'as evidenced by the language of the contract,' and that the operative question is 'whether or not the parties would have entered into the agreement absent the [unenforceable] parts.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“would result in a new and different contract not intended by the parties.”
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.