Carter v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Blanchard v. Golden Age Brewing Co. (1936), State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Greenwood (1957)
1 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 United States v. Hudson · Ex parte Robinson · In re Shortridge · State v. Frew & Hart · Holman v. State
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whoever, therefore, belongs to either one of these great departments is an agent and servant of a common master; and each and all represents a part of the sovereignty of the state, so long as they move within the appropriate spheres prescribed to them by the organic law. A court and the judge thereof, is as much an agent and servant of the people as any other officer of government, and he is bound by the duty and obligation which he owes to the commonwealth to cherish, defend, and transmit unimpaired to his successors the office with which the commonwealth has seen fit to honor him. A judge, therefore, in vindicating the dignity and authority of the court over which he presides, is discharging a solemn duty owed in his official character, and is not engaged in a personal or private controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Speed“seems to embrace almost every conceivable form of that offence which can occur in the presence of, or in proximity to, the court, that is to say, under circumstances likely to arouse the passion or prejudice of the judge, and disturb that equanimity essential to calm and wise judicial action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That although the United States statute’of 1831 carefully enumerates the subjects for which courts may punish summarily for contempt, that enumeration is so comprehensive as to afford complete protection to the courts in the performance of their duties.””
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.