Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1935
10 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 Corrie v. Corrie · In re Sneden
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A husband and wife, on separating, may make a valid contract for the care of their minor children. Such contract, while valid between the parties, will not be sustained to the detriment of the minor child, whose interests are of the first consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ It is certainly to be hoped that these parents, if they cannot live together in harmony and take care of their offspring as they ought to do, will at least have the good sense to agree to what is for .their children’s best interests.””
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.