Furr v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2024
5 federal appellate · 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 Schepp v. Hess · Ford v. Nicks · Ford v. Ford · Eason Oil Co. v. Howard Engineering, Inc. · Greene v. Circle Insurance Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be toward the fulfillment of a promise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to construct a two mile all-weather smooth service road to serve the development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The failure to plead an affirmative defense operates as a waiver of that defense.”
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.