Carson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Benjamin v. Bailey (1995), Humphreys v. State (2010)
42 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 Patterson v. New York · Chenault v. State · Nunn v. State · Associated Mutuals Inc. v. Pope Lumber Co. · 129 Ga. App. 103 - Williams v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question in each case being whether the particular regulation involved is legitimate and reasonably within the police power, or whether ... under the name of regulation, [it] amounts to a deprivation of the constitutional right”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was not arbitrary or unreasonable to prohibit the keeping and carrying of sawed-off shotguns, which are of a size such as can easily be concealed and which are adapted to and commonly used for criminal purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacy 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.