Carr v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
597 F.2d 830 · 1979
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Stonewall Insurance Company v. Asbestos Claims Management Corporation Fm Asbestos Claims Management Corporation (1995), United States v. Annigoni (1996)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1870 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Lewis v. United States · Pointer v. United States · Associated Press v. Taft-Ingalls Corp. · United States v. Nell
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.
“[i]n civil cases, each party shall be entitled to three peremptory challenges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is a common practice in this circuit for trial courts to specify in advance of voir dire that a party's failure to exercise a peremptory challenge on a particular round will result in a waiver of one challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specifically leaves to the trial court's discretion the number and manner of exercise of peremptories in cases where there are '[s]everal defendants or several plaintiffs.'”
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.