Wood v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1948
20 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 Campbell v. Carlisle
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mrs. 'Carpenter’s admissions could not bind the other legatees under the will. They could' not be admitted as against her and not as to them, for the ■ simple réason that if they had the effect to set aside the will as to her it would set aside the will as to the other legatees, also. In this respect a will contest is unlike an ordinary suit where- separate judgments may be entered as to each defendant, and the admission of one defendant can therefore be limited to himself - "without injuriously affecting the other defendants. ” - - . ■ ■ -”
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.