Carter v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Lessard v. Coronado (2007), Lessard v. Coronado Paint & Decorating Center, Inc. (2007)
2 federal appellate · 11 district · 36 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 O'TOOLE v. Carr
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to advance her employer's business interests fell within the dual purpose, required-vehicle exception to the going and coming rule and placed her squarely . . . within . . . the scope of her employment at the time of the accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.