Carey v. Cagney’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1979 · most notably Adsit v. Park (1919), Kivlen v. Horvath (1927)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 Marx v. Hanthorn · Redfield v. Parks · Martin v. Barbour · Groesbeck v. Seeley · Smith v. Sherry
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But here we have the case of a tax purchaser, who has never had either the actual or constructive possession of the property; a case where the record owner is now and has been always in the corporeal possession of the property.””
2 later decisions 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.