White v. . Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1983
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The “question was most emphatically a question for the jury; and I think it was submitted to the jury as favorably for the defendant as he had a right to expect or ask.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morah v. Steele““Not as I know of. I understand he had a quack; I would not call him a physician. I understood that Dr. White, as he is called, had been there.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morah v. Steele
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.