Carter v. Veith’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1982
15 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 Succession of Rufin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this ease, the participation of all the heirs, they being sui juris and being the only persons having an interest in the estate of their father, in the petition to the court that they be recognized as heirs and sent into possession, share and share alike, and the obtention of the judgment in accordance with that petition, was a most authoritative renunciation Vy each, in favor of all the others, of any right in conflict with those recognized hy the judgment. * * * (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Succession of Kranz
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.