Layton v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 1275 · 1973
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Carter v. Estelle (1982), W.C.M. Window Co. v. Bernardi (1984)
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Williams v. Illinois · Peyton v. Rowe · Tate v. Short
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and if there is no reason to believe that the state court will change its position.”
3 later decisions 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.