Carver v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Preston v. United States · Maryland ex rel. Levin v. United States · New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · Prado Oil & Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not a search to see what is patent and obvious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hermandson
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.