Carlin v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably 140 W. Va. 327 - Puffer v. Hub Cigar Store, Inc. (1954), Frenkil v. Johnson (1939)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Benedick v. Potts · Goldman & Freiman Bottling Co. v. Sindell · Howser v. Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad · Albert v. State ex rel. Ryan · American Express Co. v. Terry
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An inspection must be adequate, according to the circumstances, to be reasonably careful.”
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.