Carmichael v. Carmichael’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 1966 · most notably Frazier v. Patterson (1909), Curry v. Cotton (1934)
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Faxton v. Faxon · Miller v. Henderson
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt, from the two wills and their terms, and the oral evidence connecting them, that the father and mother came to a mutual understanding and agreement as claimed by the complainants.'””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barker v. Smith
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.