Carr v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1962 · most notably 55 Cal. App. 117 - McKevitt v. City of Sacramento (1921), In Re Estate of Dwyer (1911)
39 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 Hurley v. Brown · Mead v. Parker · Preble v. Abrahams · Merritt v. Campbell · Marriner v. Dennison
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Where the instrument is, by the agreement of the parties at the time of execution, understood to be delivered, and under such circumstances that the grantee is entitled to immediate delivery; or, “2. Where it is delivered to a stranger for the benefit of the grantee, and his assent is shown, or may be presumed.””
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.