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Carr v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
3
states following
November 2001
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2001

6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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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.

Relationships

Relies on Manwaring v. Geisler · Cullinan v. Jefferson County · Chambers v. Ideal Pure Milk Co. · Happy v. Erwin · Spillman v. Beauchamp

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

  1. “[w]hile teachers are clothed with a discretionary authority with respect to the infliction of corporal punishment ... the punishment must be reasonable and confined within the bounds of moderation; that is, must not be cruel or excessive, and the teacher must not act wantonly or from malice or passion....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Darden Lh Darden v. Watkins · Darden By and Through Darden v. Watkins
  2. “in excess of what reasonably appear[s] to be appropriate under the circumstances,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Darden Lh Darden v. Watkins · Darden By and Through Darden v. Watkins
  3. “deliberate wrongdoing, regardless of whether he was acting within the scope of his authority.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Gail Minger, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Howard Minger v. Joseph Green, Director, Public Safety Department, Murray State University David Wilson, Associate Director, Housing, Murray State University

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.