Farley v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2016
11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 86th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738
Relies on Herrmann v. United States · Wiener v. California · Southwest Title Insurance Co. v. Northland Building Corp. · Donald v. Jones · First Dallas Petroleum, Inc. v. Hawkins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]roof that attorneys' fees are necessary, apart from testimony as to the reasonableness of the fee, is not required”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Inadmissible hearsay admitted without objection shall not be denied probative value merely because it is hearsay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re VV
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.