Carroll v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
1 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 1978 · most notably Storey v. State (1882), State v. Cain (1882)
1 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State v. Clarissa
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The owner may resist the entry [into his house] but he has no right to kill, unless it be rendered necessary [in order] to prevent a felonious destruction of his property, or to defend himself against loss of life, or great bodily harm.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.