Carr v. Hoy’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably McClendon v. Rosetti (1972), State v. Sherry (1965)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile · Riggs v. . Palmer · Reiner v. North American Newspaper Alliance · People v. . Stedeker · Stone v. Freeman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n[o one shall be permitted to profit by his own fraud, or to take advantage of his own wrong, or to found any claim upon his own iniquity, or to acquire property by his own crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a party to an illegal contract cannot ask a court of law to help him carry out his illegal object, nor can such a person plead or prove in any court a case in which he, as a basis for his claim, must show forth his illegal purpose[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Stone v. Freeman, 298 N.Y. 268 , 271 , citing the leading cases). The money plaintiff sues for was the fruit of an admitted crime and”
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.