Carpentier v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
80 U.S. 480 · 1871
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1977
3 federal appellate · 8 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““was intended to save the rights of third persons, not parties to the proceeding, who might have Spanish or Mexican claims independent of or superior to that presented by the claimant, or the equitable rights of other parties having rightful claims under the title confirmed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It matters not whether the presentation was made by tire confirmee, in his own name, in good faith, or with intent to defraud the actual owner of the claim, [as alleged in this caso;] a court of equity will control the legal title in his hands so as to protect tire just rights of others. But in ejectment, the legal title must control. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bouldin v. Phelps
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.