Carpenter v. Longan’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 271 · 1872
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 9 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 308 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Beavers v. Haubert (1905), Baldwin v. State of Missouri (1930)
50 federal appellate · 9 district · 128 state decisions — followed in 35 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.
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 308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The transfer of the note carries with it the security, without any formal assignment or delivery, or even mention of the latter.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The note and mortgage are inseparable; the former as essential, the latter as an incident. An assignment of the note carries the mortgage with it, while an assignment of the latter alone is a nullity.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““An assignee of a note, and of a mortgage given to secure it, takes the mortgage as he takes the note, free from the objections to which it was liable in the hands of the mortgagee.””
4 later decisions 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.