Carleton v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2003 · most notably Norton v. Shelby County (1886), Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on People v. White · Wilcox v. Smith · Fowler v. Bebee · Commonwealth v. Fowler · People ex relat. Bush & Higby v. Collins
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There could not be an officer de facto where no officer de jure was provided for. Where the law has provided that an office may legally be filled, then the acts of an incumbent may be valid, although not lawfully appointed, because the public, being bound to know the law, know that somebody may or should fill the place, and perform the duties; and possession would, as to them, be evidence of title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Payment
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.