Carson v.’s Empirical Analysis
118 U.S. 279 · 1886
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1962 · most notably Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Cockrell (1914), Madisonville Traction Company v. Saint Bernard Mining Company (1905)
18 federal appellate · 9 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Meyer v. Construction Co. · Stone v. State of South Carolina · Babbitt v. Clark · Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Speck
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all issues of fact made upon the ■petition for removal must be tried in the Circuit Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.