Carter v. Doe ex dem. Chaudron’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1983
21 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 Kirksey v. Jones · Townsend v. Corning · Doe ex dem. Farmer's Heirs v. Eslava · Bradford v. Dawson · Magill v. Hinsdale
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.
““Conditions annexed to estates are sometimes so placed and confounded amongst covenants, sometimes so' ambiguously drawn, and at all times have in their drawing so much affinity with limitations, that it is hard to discern and distinguish them. Know, therefore [says the author], that, for the most part, conditions have conditional words in their frontispiece, and do begin therewith; and that amongst these words there are three that are most proper, which, in and of their own efficacy, without any addition of other words of re-entry in the conclusion of the condition, do make the estate conditional, as proviso, ita quod, and sub conditione; and therefore, if A. grant lands to B., to have and to hold to him and his heirs, provided that, or so as, or under this condition, that B. do pay to A. ten pounds at Easter next, this is a good condition, and the estate is conditional, without any more words.””
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.