Samuel Carpenter v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Empirical Analysis
58 U.S. 456 · 1854
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1976 · most notably Marcello v. Bonds (1955), Blodgett v. Holden (1927)
36 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Fletcher v. Peck · Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge · The Providence Bank v. Alpheus Billings · Ennis v. Smith
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, until the period for distribution arrives, the law of the decedent's domicile attaches to the property, . . . . The rights of the donee are subordinate to the conditions, formalities, and administrative control, prescribed by the state in the interests of its public order, and are only irrevocably established upon its abdication of this control, at the period of distribution. If the state, during this period of administration and control by its tribunals and their appointees, thinks fit to impose a tax upon the property, there is no obstacle in the constitution and laws of the United States to prevent it. [*] [Citing cases].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright Estate
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.