Hunt v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Republic National Bank of Dallas v. Fredericks (1955), Kelly v. Womack (1954)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Caples v. Ward · Hancock v. Butler · Brooker v. Brooker · Anderson v. Menefee · Neely v. Brogden
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rule against perpetuities, at common law, is that no interest within its scope is good unless it must vest, if at all, not later than twenty-one years after some life in being at the creation of the interest, to which is added the period of gestation if gestation exists. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Womack““The conclusion that the remainder in the child or children is contingent rather than vested is also impelled by the words ‘if any survive him’. Survival is made a condition precedent to the vesting of the remainder rather than a condition of de-feasance.””
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.