Carter v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 692 · 1970
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1995
14 federal appellate · 7 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 Olmstead v. United States · Balistrieri v. United States · Fisher v. United States · Austin v. United States · Harris v. United States
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.
“It should not be necessary to explain . . . that sarcasm and ridicule are not the stuff of good argument or good taste in judicial proceedings. When the government resorts to such behavior, we are the poorer for it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawfully kills another in pursuance of a wrongful act or unlawful purpose, without legal excuse”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a mind deliberately bent on mischief, a generally depraved, wicked and malicious spirit.”
1 later decision 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.