Carlson v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Colorado Water Conservation Board v. Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District (2005), Davison v. Industrial Claim Appeals Office (2004)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 37 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 23 U.S.C. § 153
Relies on Geier v. American Honda Motor Co. · Martin v. People · People v. Luther · Fischer v. Moore · Town of Telluride v. Lot Thirty-Four Venture, L.L.C.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when examining a statute's plain language, we give effect to every word and render none superfluous ... because '[wle do not presume that the legislature used language idly and with no intent that meaning should be given to its language'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he use of different terms signals an intent on the part of the General Assembly to afford those terms different meanings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpret statutes in a way that gives effect to the General Assembly's intent in enacting that particular statute.”
2 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.