Wilson v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1930
1 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““She [the plaintiff] testifies that ’when her father gave her the mortgage he did not deliver the note. Indeed, as a matter of fact, the note never was in her possession or under her control, but always remained in the possession or under the control of her father after it was paid in November, 1860. About this there is no dispute. Now we suppose’it to be a very clear proposition, that a delivery of the note was essential in order to pass title and give effect to the gift. The note was the principal, ‘ the mortgage the accessory. While the note remained in the possession of the father, the gift was revocable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baltes v. Klief
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.