Wood v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 135 · 1879
Citation profile
246 federal appellate · 100 district · 353 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,037 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. Kubrick (1979), United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald (1977)
246 federal appellate · 100 district · 353 state decisions — followed in 44 states
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 Stearns v. Page · Musselman v. Kent · Buckner v. Calcote · Boyd v. Boyd
Cited together with United States v. Kubrick · Bailey Assignee v. Glover et al. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Badger v. Badger
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 1,037 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the means of knowledge are the same thing in effect as knowledge itself.”
84 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) An action for breach of any contract for sale must be commenced within four years after the cause of action has accrued ... (b) A cause of action accrues when the breach occurs, regardless of the aggrieved party’s lack of knowledge of the breach. A breach of warranty occurs when tender of delivery is made, except that where a warranty explicitly extends to future performance of the goods and discovery of the breach must await the time of such performance the cause of action accrues when the breach is or should have been discovered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If any person liable to an action shall conceal the fact from the knowledge of the person entitled thereto, the action may be commenced at any time within'the period of limitation, after the discovery of the cause of action.” (2 Rev. Stat. Ind.' 1876, p. 128, § 219.)”
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.