Carter v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 1332 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1995 · most notably Harris v. Champion (1994), Williams v. Calderon (1995)
23 federal appellate ·
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 · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Watson v. Ault
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d)ifferences of this magnitude and treatment accorded indigents and non-indigents cannot be brushed away.”
2 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.