Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Commonwealth v. DiMarzo (1974), Greenberg v. City of Waterbury (1933)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 St Louis Ry Co v. McBride · John Voorhees v. James Jackson · Lisbon v. Lyman · Story v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · 10 E.H. Smith 286 - People v. . Thorn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a view is the acquisition by the jury of a special and restricted kind of evidence, which, the trial court in its discretion, finds may be of use to the jury in reaching a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the object is black when seen by the jury it would be absurd to expect them to find that it was white, in the absence of evidence indicating that they had been imposed upon.”
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.