Farrington v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 1966 · most notably Palm Beach Estates v. Croker (1932), City of Miami Beach v. the Texas Co. (1940)
96 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 Travis v. Travis · McGill v. Chappelle · Lucas v. Wade · Williams v. Bailey · Florida National Bank v. Sherouse
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We also bear in mind the oft reiterated rule that while the findings of the chancellor on the facts where the evidence is heard by him* and the witnesses are before him, are entitled to more weight in the appellate court than where such findings are made in a cause where the testimony was not-taken before the chancellor, yet in either case the chancellor’s findings should not be disturbed by an appellate court unless shown to be clearly erroneous. Sandlin v. Hunter Co., 70 Fla. 514 , 70 South. Rep. 553 ; Travis v. Travis, 81 Fla. 309 , 87 South. Rep. 762 ; Lucas v. Wade, 43 Fla. 419 , 31 South. Rep. 23. On the other hand, where a decree is manifestly against the weight of the evidence or contrary to and unsupported by the legal effect of the evidence, then it becomes the duty of the appellate court to reverse such decree. Carr v. Leslie, 73 Fla. 233 , 74 South. Rep. 208 ; Florida National Bank v. Sherouse, 80 Fla. 405 , 86 South. Rep. 279 ; Gill v. Chappelle, 71 Fla. 479 , 71 South. Rep. 836 ; Lightsey v. Washington Park Properties, 112 South. Rep. 555 .””
3 later decisions 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.