Fahey v. Crotty’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1987
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Boardman v. Woodman · Corning v. . Corning · Goldsmith, Forcheimer & Co. v. Picard · Humphrey v. Humphrey · Fowler v. Ætna Fire Insurance Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In civil actions, with the exception of those cases where by the pleadings the character of the party is put in issue, the weight of authority is against the admissibility of such testimony to rebut imputations of misconduct or fraud.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Elseffer · Rowe v. Myers““ In the State of New York such evidence was at one time received in civil suits [citing Ruan v. Perry], but that case has been reviewed and overruled in later cases, and the English rule adhered to, as stated by the text-writers on Evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Elseffer
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.