Bennetts, Inc. v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1996
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.
Relationships
Relies on Terminal Taxicab Co. v. Kutz · McKay v. Public Utilities Commission · Neitzel v. Spokane International Railway Co. · Davis v. People Ex Rel. Public Utilities Commission · Rural Electric Co. v. State Board of Equalization
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.
“It is a general principle of law that the doctrine of estoppel cannot be invoked against any governmental agency, acting in its public capacity”
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.