Carroll v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 137 Wis. 2d 506 - Watts v. Watts (1987), Gonzalez v. Satrustegui (1994)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 57 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 18 Cal. 3d 660 - Marvin v. Marvin · Porter v. Porter · Becchelli v. Becchelli · Porter v. Porter · Fernandez v. Garza
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no difference in the legal effect between an express contract and an implied contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demasse v. ITT Corp.“a benefit to the promisor and a detriment to the promisee.”
1 later decision 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.