State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003
7 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 Hawke v. Smith · State of Ohio on Relation of David Davis v. Charles Q Hildebrant · State Ex Rel. Lashly v. Becker · State v. Gross · State Ex Rel. Smiley v. Holm
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [T]here can be no doubt, but that a member of Congress is not,, strictly speaking, a state officer. He does not represent the state, but represents the people of the United States in the district from which he is elected. He is a United States officer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since the number of representatives for Missouri has been reduced- the former districts no longer exist and representatives must be elected at large.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll v. Becker“until such State shall be redistricted in the manner provided by the laws thereof”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. Smith
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.