Rhodes v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Johnson v. Lilly (1992), Davis v. Lawhon (1932)
7 federal appellate · 41 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 Campbell v. Holt · City Ry Co v. Citizens' St R Co · Eason v. State · Mueller v. Light · Hill 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if ... [a creditor] prefers to collect ... [his claim] within the period of administration he will probate it. If the security is ample and he prefers the interest, he can let the claim run and foreclose his lien, as he could do if the obligor had not died.”
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.