Carnes v. Carnes’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1982
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Vroom · Sewell v. Johnson · Atkins v. Atkins · Gibson v. Rees · Lyndon v. Lyndon
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule that we cannot admit evidence in this court (Atkins v. Atkins, 393 Ill. 202 ) should not be applied to produce absurd results or injustice.””
1 later decision 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.