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Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
5
states following
February 2001
most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably Ridge Community Investors, Inc. v. Berry (1977), Eudy v. Eudy (1975)

51 state decisions

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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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · United States v. Pink · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When, in such case, a second spouse can rely upon the divorce decree, we think the sounder view is to require him to do so rather than permit him to attack it at his election, depending on the fortunes or misfortunes of the marriage. We must be mindful of his status where he chooses to maintain the validity of the divorce decree rather than to attack it. It would seem that if this plaintiff has a just grievance, such arises, not on account of the divorce decree and his marriage, but on account of matters arising during the subsistence of such marriage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Maxwell v. Woods
  2. “A decision of the Supreme Court must be interpreted within the framework of the facts of that particular case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. International Serv. Ins. Co. v. Iowa Nat. Mut. Ins. Co.

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.