Carter v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2019
10 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 City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Montgomery v. Kennedy · Bonniwell v. Beech Aircraft Corp. · Goswami v. Metropolitan Savings & Loan Ass'n · Torres v. Western Casualty and Surety Company
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the relevant contested facts were fully and fairly litigated in the prior action, 2) such facts were essential to the judgment in the first action, and 3) the parties were adversaries in the first action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walton v. Johnson“If the property cannot be partitioned in kind, there must be a partition by sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriguez v. Rivas
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.