Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1986
24 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 Spengler v. Stiles-Tull Lumber Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant insists most earnestly that the court erred in granting instructions asked by the state. We are relieved from any consideration of the instructions relating; to the crime of murder, for the reason that appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and is, therefore, presumed not to have been prejudiced by any instructions relating to the crime of murder.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gregory v. State
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.