Farley v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
99 F.2d 343 · 1938
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1977
13 federal appellate · 1 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 Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty · United States & Interstate Commerce Commission v. Abilene & Southern Railway Co. · Bates & Guild Co. v. Payne · American School of Magnetic Healing v. McAnnulty
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for obtaining money * * * through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“justly be said to be palpably wrong and therefore arbitrary.”
1 later decision 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.