Carroll v. President & Commissioners of Princess Anne’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
387 federal appellate · 61 district · 323 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,143 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Roe v. Wade (1973)
387 federal appellate · 61 district · 323 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act)
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Chaplinsky v. State of New Hampshire · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Shelton v. Tucker · Freedman v. Maryland
Cited together with Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · Freedman v. Maryland · Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe
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 1,143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]udgment as to whether the facts justify the use of the drastic power of injunction necessarily turns on subtle and controversial considerations and upon a delicate assessment of the particular situation in light of legal standards which are inescapably imprecise.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, by what processes, and to what extent the authorities of the local governments may restrict petitioners in their rallies and public meetings”
3 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.