Carpenter v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 363 · 1930
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 99 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 690 later decisions (91 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Aquilino v. United States (1960)
196 federal appellate · 99 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
Relationships
Relies on Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia · Choate v. Trapp · Lone Wolf v. Ethan a Hitchcock · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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 690 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Doubtful expressions are to be resolved in favor of the weak and defenseless people who are the wards of the nation, dependent upon its protection and good faith,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The language used in treaties with the Indians should never be construed to their prejudice.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a denial by a state court of a recovery of taxes exacted in violation of the laws or Constitution of the United States by compulsion is itself in contravention of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.