Carlson v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Kurkjian v. Fish Carburetor Corporation (1962), Scheneman v. Barnett (1951)
29 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 Cragin v. Ocean & Lake Realty Co. · Taylor, Jr. v. Prine
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “We are of the opinion that the record' in this case fails to show sufficient facts and circumstances to justify the Chancellor in awarding to plaintiffs a lesser amount than that found to be due and owing to them.””
8 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.