Webster v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1972
17 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 McDonough v. Williams · Trust Company v. National Bank · Desha's Exrs. v. Robinson · Heartman v. Franks · Sumpter v. Tucker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a defendant can maintain a cross action for damages on account of defect in personal property purchased by him, or for a noncomplianee by the plaintiff with his part of the contract, he may, in a defense to an action upon his note made in consequence of such purchase or contract, claim a deduction corresponding with the injury he has sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dutton v. Million
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.