Carroll v. Dougherty’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2006
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hutchinson v. Stone · 97 So. 2d 120 - Zimmerman v. Diedrich · Cox v. La Pota · 271 So. 2d 762 - Koplon v. Smith · 342 So. 2d 839 - Wickes Corp. v. Moxley
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.
“[B]y virtue of the deletion of the words “duly executed” from the new constitution, we are drawn to the inescapable conclusion that contracts to convey homestead realty fall into the same category as contracts to convey any other kind of real estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Ujnder the prior constitutional provisions a homestead could only be mortgaged by a “duly executed” instrument; and the courts uniformly held that “duly executed” under these provisions meant that such a mortgage had to be executed with the formality of a deed as required by § 689.01 . . . which . required the presence of two subscribing witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Barnes“Carroll, 355 So.2d at 844 . Carroll further explains: Since there is nothing in Section 689.01 to differentiate homestead realty, the requirement for witnesses on a contract to convey homestead had to come from another source. A study of the evolution of this requirement demonstrates that it was grounded upon the”
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.