Carroll v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1980
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Rideau v. Louisiana
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES “October Term, 1967. “CARROLL v. TEXAS. “On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. “No. 1224, Mise. Decided “June 17, 1968. “Per Curiam. “The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is reversed. Rideau v. Louisiana, 373 U.S. 723 . “The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Harlan, Mr. Justice Stewart, and Mr. Justice White are of the opinion that certiorari should be denied.” Carroll v. Texas, 392 U.S. 664 , 88 S.Ct. 2299 , 20 L.Ed.2d 1356 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Carroll
How this case has been treated — in progress
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