Carter v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2012
22 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 Lane v. Scott · Ravenwood Towers, Inc. v. Woodyard · Rogers v. Marrow by Marrow · Wooldridge v. Echelon Service Co. · Ragland v. Rutledge
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f there is credible evidence in the record which supports the jury's verdict, we must reinstate that verdict and enter judgment thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGuire v. Hodges
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.