Carr v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably W. C. & A. N. Miller Development Co. v. Emig Properties Corp. (1943), Hatchett v. Thompson (1936)
2 district · 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 United States v. L. Cohen Grocery Co. · Bowers v. Andrews · Lott v. Rouse · Reed v. Heard · Illinois Central Railroad v. LeBlanc
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`90 by 225 feet on the west side of Warrenton road, assessed to John Parkhurst, in section 34, township 16 N., range 3 E., in Warren county, [Mississippi],' conveyed no title, since the name of a person to whom land is assessed cannot be considered in aid of the description required, it not being descriptive of the land and furnishing no clue which, if followed, would identify the tract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jefferson v. Walker“north one-half of the northwest one-fourth, less one third acre to Mrs. Carr.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jefferson v. Walker
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.