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← 349 U.S. 408 - Carroll v. Lanza

Carroll v. Lanza’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

372
cited by 372 later decisions
28
cited 28 times by the Supreme Court
30
states following
May 2023
most recently cited

99 federal appellate · 45 district · 142 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 372 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Richards v. United States (1962), Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (1985)

99 federal appellate · 45 district · 142 state decisions — followed in 30 states

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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.

Appellate journey

reviewedLanza v. Carroll (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738

Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Cardillo US v. Liberty Mut Ins Co · Alaska Packers Ass'n v. Industrial Accident Commission · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt · Pacific Employers Ins Co v. Industrial Accident Commission of California

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 372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The State where the tort occurs certainly has a concern in the problems following in the wake of the injury”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Allstate Insurance v. Hague · Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt et al.
  2. ““Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. 388 Wis. 2d 193 - Moran v. Wis. Dep't of Justice · 397 F. Supp. 622 - Black Hills Packing Co. v. S. D. Stockgrowers Ass'n
  3. “the bodily safety and economic protection”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Hyatt · 136 S. Ct. 1277 - Franchise Tax Bd. of Cal. v. Hyatt

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.