Carter v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2004
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Cox v. Hart · Horne v. Smith · United States v. Morrison · Miami Corporation v. State · United States v. Morrison
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A government survey creates, not merely identifies, the township sections and boundaries thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.