Neblett v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
305 U.S. 297 · 1938
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Whisenhunt v. Spradlin (1983), Caminetti v. Pac. Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Cal. (1943)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · State of Ohio Bryant v. Akron Metropolitan Park Dist for Summit County State of Ohio Wadsworth · Robert West v. State of Louisiana · Central Land Co of West Virginia v. Laidley · Standard Oil Company of Indiana v. State of Missouri
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The (California) Supreme Court held, however, that the court in which the Commissioner’s original petition was filed thereby acquired jurisdiction and that the avoidance of the orders made by the disqualification of the judge who entered them did not dis-enable a qualified judge thereafter from entering valid orders on the petition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is argued that the Code unconstitutionally delegates legislative functions to the Commissioner, and that the Supreme Court [of California] erred in not so holding. This, again, is a question of state law the decision of which by the State’s highest court is binding upon us.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duncan v. Ward“afforded an alternative whereby they will receive damages for breach of their contracts.”
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.