Carithers v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1982
11 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Estoppels in pais are upheld to prevent gross injustice in cases where one party, having rights in property, by representations or conduct in reference thereto, fraudulently induces another to part with value for that property, and thereafter insists on those rights to deprive the latter of both value and property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A vendee cannot acquire a title adverse to his vendor by the purchase of the land at a tax sale, nor can an agent whose duty it is to pay the taxes become the purchaser of the principal’s land at such a sale.”
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.