Carter v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Lachenmyer v. Gehlbach (1914), Smith v. Shepard (1939)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 James Carver v. James Jackson · Scofield v. Olcott · McCartney v. Osburn · Knight v. Pottgieser · Cropley v. Cooper
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Though a gift arises wholly out of directions to pay or distribute in futuro , yet if such payment or distribution is not deferred for reasons personal to the legatee, but merely because the testator desired to appropriate the subject matter of the legacy to the use and benefit of another for and during the life of such other, the vesting of the gift in remainder will not be postponed but will vest at once (on the death of the testator), the right of enjoyment only being deferred.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.