Adams v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2017
20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view therefore, of the case made by the record, and in view of the wide distinction between the equity and common-law procedure as to this court’s power in reversing an equity decree and a judgment at law, and in view of the absence of any statute such as exists in ■Kentucky and other states, we are constrained to hold that the plea in bar is well taken. It might be well for the legislature to provide by statute that this court •should have the power to affirm in part and reverse in part, as justice might require, where the appeal is from ■a judgment at law; but, in the absence of such a statute, we are held down to the well-settled rule indicated in •■appeals from judgments of courts at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have found several cases apparently maintaining the proposition that, when the plaintiff accepted money paid, he may still appeal, where the object of the appeal is simply to have a judgment modified by increasing his demand, as where sufficient damages had not been allowed, or where proper interest had not been allowed. (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appellant obtained an appeal, not from that part of the judgment disallowing the [amount demanded in excess of $8,228] only, but from the judgment as a whole the entire judgment.”
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.