Carroll v. Bunt’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably Three Rivers Land Co., Inc. v. Maddoux (1982), C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank (1979)
27 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 Bell v. Preferred Life Assurance Society · Perkins v. Vermont Hydro-Electric Corp. · Ritter v. Albuquerque Gas & Electric Co. · Sanchez v. Torres · Johnson v. City of Santa Fe
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general policy of the Rules requires that an adjudication on the merits rather than technicalities of procedure and form shall determine the rights of the litigants.””
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.