Farrow v. Cahill’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 201 · 1980
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Beckman v. Farmer (1990), Monetti Spa Usa v. Anchor Hocking Corporation (1991)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States · Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson · Chevalier v. Lane's, Inc. · J. Edward Day v. William H. Avery · Browzin v. Catholic University of America
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3) Under District of Columbia law: “An action may not be brought to charge ... a person ... upon an agreement that is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof, unless the agreement upon which the action is brought, or a memorandum or note thereof, is in writing, which need not state the consideration and signed by the party to be charged therewith or a person authorized by him.” D.C.Code Ann. § 28-3502.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] promise to serve as an employee as long as the employee lives ... is ... clearly outside the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[A] claimant ordinarily cannot expect to lose in the trial court on one theory but win on appeal under another.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.