Ward v. Farwell’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably Adams v. Iten Biscuit Co. (1917), George v. People (1897)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Ross v. Irving · Johnson v. Joliet & Chicago Railroad · Ruggles v. People · Dunne v. People
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “See. 2. When a majority, in number, or interest, of the members or stockholders of any insurance company incorporated in this state, desire to close its concerns, they may apply by petition to the Circuit Court of the circuit in which the company is located, setting forth in substance the grounds of their application; and the court, after due notice to all the parties interested may proceed to hear the matter, and for reasonable cause decree a dissolution of the corporation; and corporations so dissolved shall be deemed and held extinct, in all respects as if their charter had expired by their own limitation, subject, however, to the provisions hereinafter prescribed.””
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.