Carroll v. Lessee of Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
57 U.S. 275 · 1853
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle (1985)
61 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 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 United States v. Schooner Peggy · Peck v. Jenness · Ex Parte the City Bank of New Orleans · Asa Green v. The Lessee of Henry Neal
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f [a point of law] might have been decided either way without affecting any right brought into question, then, according to the principles of the common law, an opinion on such a question is not a decision.”
8 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.