Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1944
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Hodge v. Smith · Marling v. FitzGerald · Nutting v. Minnesota Fire Insurance · Golden v. Meier · Swanke v. Herdeman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere manual transition of such a paper is one thing, delivery thereof as an element of a contractual obligation is another. The former without mutual intent to give validity to the paper, but a mutual intent to the contrary, does not constitute the latter.” (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrison v. Anderson
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.