People v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
4
states following
April 2009
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o one disputes that defendants should have been prosecuted for these felonies by an Assistant District Attorney who was duly admitted to practice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“neither the Constitution nor any statute requires that a District Attorney or an Assistant District Attorney be an admitted lawyer”
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.