Carter v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably McCulloch v. Roberts (1973), Horn v. Dunn Brothers, Inc. (1955)
2 federal appellate · 88 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 Pargoud v. United States · Toy Toy v. C B Hopkins · Broom v. Douglass · de Graffenried v. Breitling · State ex rel. Sullivan v. Reynolds
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of the finality of a decree sufficient to support an appeal is that it ascertains and declares the rights of the parties and settles the equities, and is not controlled by the fact that the cause remains in fieri in respect to other matters. [Citations omitted]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCulloch v. Roberts
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.