Carley & Hamilton, Inc. v. Snook Chief of the Division of Motor Vehicles’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 66 · 1930
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 21 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1991 · most notably Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. (1937), Clark v. Paul Gray, Inc. (1939)
12 federal appellate · 21 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 22 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 Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Silver v. Silver · Shaffer v. Carter · Frank Kane v. State of New Jersey
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a proprietor's charge for the passage over a highway or bridge, exacted when and as the privilege of passage is exercised,”
1 later decision 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.