United States v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 429 · 1967
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably 572 F. Supp. 802 - United States v. Chem-Dyne Corp. (1983), United States v. Pisani (1981)
32 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance · Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · United States v. Standard Oil Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Clearfield and the cases cited therein emphasize that the federal courts should determine the governing rule or law ‘according to their own standards’ in areas where constitutionally valid federal legislative programs have been commenced. Where a decision is likely to have a substantial effect on the implementation of a federal program, then a federal court should declare a rule consistent with the program’s demands.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Variousness of Federal Law: Competence and Discretion in the Choice of National and State Rules for Decision,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.