Carr v. Leavitt’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1938 · most notably Logan v. Brown (1908), Petrie v. Torrent (1891)
25 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 Bunnel v. Taintor's administrator · Bruce v. Hastings · Hillebrands v. Nibbelink · Heyn v. Philips · Lesley v. Rosson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the plaintiff was to be neither purchaser nor seller, and the contract did not contemplate that in any contingency an interest in the land was to be conveyed to or vested in him. It contemplated only that in a certain event the plaintiff should receive a share of the moneys that a sale of the land should bring. His interest was therefore in these moneys and not in the land itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshall v. Kenk““This surely was not a contract ‘for the sale of any lands or any interest in lands’ within the meaning of the statute of frauds. (2 How Stat. [1st Ed.] § 6181.) That statute contemplates a transaction between parties contracting with each other as principals, and this was not such a transaction.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullholland v. Patch
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.