Carroll v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Breeden v. Rockingham R. Co. · Arnold v. Charleston & Western Carolina R. · Hewitt v. Fleming · Ex parte Bacot · Taylor v. Powell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The words ‘private person’ include business corporations operating electric railways for their own use and purposes”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.