Carroll v. Greenwich Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
199 U.S. 401 · 1905
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 20 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937), Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911)
13 federal appellate · 20 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Gibbons v. Ogden · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Swift Company v. United States · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act is in general terms, and. hits all insurance companies. If it is invalid-as to some, it is invalid as to all. United States v. Ju Toy, 198 U. S. 253 , 262, 263 [ 25 Sup. Ct. 644 , 49 L. Ed. 1040 ]. That the requirements of the act might have been made conditions to foreign companies doing business in the state (Fidelity Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Mettler. 185 U. S. 308 [ 22 Sup. Ct. 662 , 46 L. Ed. 922 ]; Waters-Fierce Oil Co. v. Texas. 177 U. S. 28 [ 20 Sup. Ct. 518 , 44 L. Ed. 657 ]) is immaterial, since, as we understand the statute, the Legislature did not attempt to reach the result in that way. A company lawfully doing business in the state is no more hound by a general unconstitutional enactment than a citizen of the state. W. W. Cargill Co. v. Minnesota, 180 U. S. 452 [ 21 Sup. Ct. 423 , 45 L. Ed. 619 ].” Carroll v. Greenwich Ins. Co., 199 U. S. 401 -409, 26 Sup. Ct. 66 . 67, 50,L. Ed. 240; National Council, etc., v. State Council, etc., 203 U. S. 151 -162, 27 Sup. Ct. 46 , 51 L. Ed. 132 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“, “No doubt an agreement between the companies readily would be inferred, if they were found all to charge the same rates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if an evil is specially experienced in a particular branch of business”
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.