Foulks v. Falls’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2003
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Dana v. . Fiedler · Masonic Mutual Benefit Ass'n v. Beck · Pollen v. . Le Roy · Board of Commissioners v. Shipley · Burns v. Barenfield
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.
““[a] failure in relation to any of these duties would constitute a breach of the contract, upon which an action might be predicated, and, being thus predicated upon a violation of the written contract, it would not be barred by the six years’ limitation [pertaining to oral contracts]. If appellant is liable in this action, it must be for a violation of the written contract sued upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehouse v. Quinn
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.