State v. Carden’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2009
16 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 6 Cal. 3d 484 - People v. Medina · Kuchinic v. McCrory · 127 N.J. Super. 407 - State v. Hale · Filanowski v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · 400 F. Supp. 285 - United States v. Baynes
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the ‘law of the case’ principle, judges of coordinate jurisdictions sitting in the same court and in the same case may not ordinarily overrule the decisions of each other. It is simply a rule of practice that articulates the sound policy that when an issue is one judicially determined, that should be the end of the matter as far as judges and courts of coordinate jurisdiction are concerned. The ‘law of the case’ is not an imperative; does not go to the power of the court; and does not mean that a court does not have discretion to reconsider a ruling made by another judge in the same case.” (Citations omitted.) Carden, 170 Mont, at 440, 555 P.2d at 740.”
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.