Ford v. Hennessy’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1995
12 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 Hickerson v. City of Mexico · Ranken v. Patton · Yosti v. Laughran
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A deathbed is not the fit place nor the proper time at which a clergyman of any denomination should look to his own personal interest or seek to obtain the property of a dying man. On such an occasion, if a man has a testamentary intention, and time allows, proper advice should he obtained. * * * Advantage should never be taken of a man’s last moments in order to obtain disposition of his property in favor of persons not connected with him by blood."”
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.