United States v. Carver’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 482 · 1923
Citation profile
349 federal appellate · 117 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 782 later decisions (40 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Brown v. Allen (1953)
349 federal appellate · 117 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Co. v. Seaboard Fisheries Co. · The Valencia · The South Coast · The Yankee
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 782 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The denial of a writ of certiorari imports no expression of opinion upon the merits of the case, as the bar has been told many times.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * We regard these words as too plain for argument. They do not allow the materialman to rest upon presumptions until he is put upon inquiry, they call upon him to inquire. To ascertain is to find out by investigation. If by investigation with reasonable diligence the materialman could have found out that the vessel was under charter, he was chargeable with notice that there was a charter; if in the same way he could have found out its terms he was chargeable with notice of its terms.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]othing in this chapter shall be construed to confer a lien when the furnisher knew, or by exercise of reasonable diligence could have ascertained, that because of the terms of a charter party, agreement for sale of the vessel, or for any other reason, the person ordering the repairs, supplies, or other necessaries was without authority to bind the vessel therefor.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Bethlehem · The A. S. Sherman
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.