Carter v. Alling’s Empirical Analysis
43 F. 208 · 1890
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1960
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Diamond Match Co. v. . Roeber · Oregon Steam Navigation Company v. Winsor · Morse Twist Drill & Machine Co. v. Morse
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.
““In later years a further relaxation of the old rule has grown up both in England and America, and the courts have repeatedly recognized the validity of contracts in restraint of trade throughout the entire state or country when such restraint was not unreasonable, in vieyy of the nature and extent of the business of the covenantee.” “The modern agencies of commerce have enlarged the field for the manufacturer and salesman to, or even beyond, the limit of the continent; and to whatever extent a manufacturer or dealer has by his energy or enterprise made a market for his wares, to that extent he has the right to protect his business from piratical competition by contracts like the one under consideration.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.