Carruba v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1999
16 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 Phœnix Assurance Co. v. Fire Department · Ex Parte Rice · Savage v. Wallace · Union Cemetery v. City of Milwaukee · Hutto v. Walker County
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specific reference statute is one `where the adopting statute incorporates an earlier statute or a particular provision thereof by a specific and descriptive reference thereto,' e . g . by employing a statutory citation or the specific title to an act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“only incorporate the adopted statutes in existence at the time of the enactment of the adopting statute and do not prospectively include subsequent modifications or additions to the general subject adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[include] not only the law in force at the time the adopting act became effective, but also later legislation on the subject.”
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.