Carper v. Crowl’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Knight v. Pottgieser (1898), Cole v. Cole (1920)
1 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Scofield v. Olcott · Watson v. Watson · Pratt v. Douglas · Green v. Hewitt · Chapin v. Crow
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is manifest that the effect of her failure to elect under the statute bars only her dower and distributive share of her husband’s estate, as widow, and nothing more. There being no attempt here to assert dower, or a right to a distributive share of the personalty, the statute can have no application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walters v. Waggener““Where the rights of third persons have not intervened, an election made in ignorance, or under misapprehension of the effect of the act or the extent of the party’s rights, is not binding, and may be revoked.””
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.