Carter v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1978
9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Police and fire departments are in a class apart. Both are at times charged with the preservation of public order, and for manifold reasons they- owe to the public tbeir undivided allegiance. The power in the city of complete control is imperatively necessary if discipline is to be maintained.””
1 later decision 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.