Carter v. Redmond’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2017
3 federal appellate · 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to found an action on the violation of a statute, or ordinance, . the person suing must be such a person as is within the protection of the law and intended to be benefited thereby. . We think that one not a beneficiary of a statute may neither base an action nor a defense on a violation thereof. Unless an individual be within the province of a statute, its violation is no breach of duty to him. Chattanooga Ry. & Lt. Co. v. Bettis, 139 Tenn. 332 , 202 S.W. 70 .”
2 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.