Carson v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1831
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1956
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The separation took effect immediately, and the parties do not appear to have lived or cohabited together as husband and wife afterwards.” (Page 502.) After a review of authorities, it was said by Chancellor Walworth:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. Richards
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.