Carson v. Roane-Anderson Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. New Mexico (1982), Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock (1954)
42 federal appellate · 18 district · 21 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 James v. Dravo Contracting Co. · Alabama v. King & Boozer · Federal Land Bank of St. Paul v. Bismarck Lumber Co. · Helvering v. Wilshire Oil Co. · Pittman v. Home Owners' Loan Corp.
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Commission, and the property, activities, and income of the Commission, are hereby expressly exempted from taxation in any manner or form by any State....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly the policy behind the power of Congress to create tax immunities does not turn on the nature of the agency doing the work of the government. The power stems from the power to preserve and protect functions validly authorized — the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested in the Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly where the pattern of conduct visualized by the Act is the use of independent contractors or agents from the field of private enterprise, the inference is strong that 'activities' means all authorized methods of performing the governmental function.”
2 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.