Faw v. Whittington’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1982
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a renunciation, however, would seem to operate, not as passing an estate or interest in land, which cannot be done strictly under the act without writing, but to operate (359) as an equitable estoppel on the vendee to assert a claim to specific performance, where his conduct has misled the vendor intentionally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. . Crumpler
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.