Carl v. . Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Cook v. Sheldon (1994), Burt v. . Smith (1905)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 38 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person making a criminal accusation may act upon appearances, and if the apparent facts are such that a discreet and prudent person would be led to- the belief that a crime had been committed by the person charged, he will be justified, although it turns out that he was deceived and that the party accused was innocent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lawler
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.