Carson v. Maurer’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 32 district · 271 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 339 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997), 38 Cal. 3d 137 - Fein v. Permanente Medical Group (1985)
13 federal appellate · 32 district · 271 state decisions — followed in 36 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 United States v. Kubrick · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Reed v. Reed · Vance v. Bradley · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 339 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the issue is not before us, we do not consider whether Brown went too far in extending the discovery rule beyond discovery of the existence and cause of the injury to discovery of negligence on the defendant's part”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation' in order to satisfy State equal protection guarantees.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In Estate of Cargill v. City of Rochester, supra 119 N.H. at 667 , 406 A.2d at 707 [(1979)], we applied the rational basis test in evaluating classifications which, like those in RSA ch. 507-C (Supp. 1979), place restrictions on an individual's right to recover in tort. We now conclude, however, that the rights involved herein are sufficiently important to require that the restrictions imposed on those rights be subjected to a more rigorous judicial scrutiny than allowed under the rational basis test. See Hunter v. North Mason School Dist., supra 85 Wash.2d at 814 , 539 P.2d at 848 [(1975)]. Consequently, the classifications created by RSA (Supp. 1979) `must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation' in order to satisfy State equal protection guarantees. (Emphasis added.)"”
4 later decisions 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.