Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Bolin v. State (1957), Lash v. State (1943)
25 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Standard Oil Co. v. State · Eidge v. City of Bessemer · United States v. Missouri Pac. Ry. Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This statute goes deeper than to punish one for what he may express in words. It seeks to punish one for what he thinks or believes, regardless of the potency or impotency of the act prompted by thought or belief, to accomplish the result intended or believed to follow such act. This is a legislative abuse of the police power of the state.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nowers v. Oakden · Bolin 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.