Carroll v. Wilkerson’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 44 · 1986
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Owens v. Okure (1989), Meade v. Grubbs (1988)
35 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Daniels v. Williams · Wilson v. Garcia · Davidson v. Cannon · Brandon v. Holt · Mulligan v. Hazard
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was subject to the three-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims set forth in MCLA Sec. 600.5805(8).”
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.