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Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
6
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Collins v. State (1977), State v. Vogenthaler (1976)

2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions

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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 Al Williams v. State of Arkansas · Berger v. State · Fort Smith v. Scruggs · State v. Sinnott · 256 Cal. App. 2d 488 - People v. Roberts

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““If social changes have rendered our sodomy statutes unsuitable to the society in which we now live, we need not be concerned about the matter because there is a branch of our government within whose purview the making of appropriate adjustment and changes peculiarly lies.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 75 Md. App. 314 - Schochet v. State
  2. “It is a long-standing rule of this court, and generally of other courts, that in order for one to have standing to challenge the constitutionality of a legislative act, the act must he unconstitutional as applied to him. (Emphasis supplied)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Farmers Bank v. Fuqua Homes, Inc.
  3. “the legislature may, within constitutional limitations, prohibit all things hurtful to the comfort, safety, and welfare of the people....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jegley v. Picado

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.