Carson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
281 F. 411 · 1922
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1979 · most notably Canterbury v. Spence (1972), Morrison v. MacNamara (1979)
23 federal appellate · 5 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Allis v. United States · Guerini Stone Co. v. P. J. Carlin Construction Co. · McDermott v. Severe · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Barrett
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether or not the defendant's treatment of the plaintiff satisfied the standards of care observed by surgeons of ordinary skill in the District”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an ordinary case of negligence, where the jury is able to solve the question by applying thereto their own experiences”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the test is: How would a reasonably prudent man have acted under the circumstances?”
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.