Carr v. Grace’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 502 · 1975
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably LeCompte v. Mr. Chip, Inc. (1976), Fassett v. Delta Kappa Epsilon (1986)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · Donovan v. City of Dallas · Ettelson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Ermentrout v. Commonwealth Oil Co.
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.
“[t]he appealability of an order depends on its effect rather than its language.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It seems clear that a federal court may not abdicate its authority on the grounds that a similar action is pending in a state court. Donovan v. Dallas, 1963, 377 U.S. 408 , 84 S.Ct. 1579 , 12 L.Ed.2d 409 ; Meredith v. Winter Haven, 1943, 320 U.S. 228 , 64 S.Ct. 7 , 88 L.Ed. 9 ; Ermentrout v. Commonwealth Oil Co., 5 Cir. 1955, 220 F.2d 527 ____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the peculiar circumstances of that case,”
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.