Carpenter v. Strange’s Empirical Analysis
141 U.S. 87 · 1891
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Stoll v. Gottlieb (1938), Huntington v. Attrill (1892)
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 30 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 Massie v. Watts · Hart v. Sansom · Richard Watkins v. Oliver Holman · Gardner v. . Ogden
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The real estate was situated in Tennessee and governed by the law of its situs, and, while by means of its power over the person of a party a court of equity may in a proper case compel him to act in relation to property not within its jurisdiction, its decree does not operate directly upon the property nor affect the title, but is made effectual through the coercion of the defendant, as, for instance, by directing a deed to be executed or canceled by or on behalf of the party.'"”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dull v. Blackman · Deck v. Whitman“would be to attribute to that decree the force and effect of a judgment in rem by a court having no jurisdiction over the res.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. Sharp · HERRING v. GRAHAM“not obliged to surrender jurisdiction to the courts of New York over real estate in Tennessee, exclusively subject to its laws and the jurisdiction of its courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. HERRING v. GRAHAM
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.