Cavender v. Cavender’s Empirical Analysis
114 U.S. 464 · 1885
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably B. D. Click Co. v. United States (1980), Ex parte Jonas (1914)
18 federal appellate · 12 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 Reynolds v. First Nat Bank of Crawfordsville Indiana · Attorney General v. Garrison · United States v. Tingey's Administrators · United States v. Tingey's Administrators
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts of equity are frequently required to act on the admissions of the answer without other proof. Thus, when a cause is heard upon bill and answer, the decree is based entirely on the admissions of the answer without other testimony. (Citing cases.) At all events, it does not lie in the mouth of a defendant in equity to complain that the court assumed his answer made under oath to be true and decreed accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hancock v. Luke““If there- was any defect in the statement made in the hill, it was rendered immaterial hy the statements of the answer, and is not now ground of complaint.” Pindall v. Trevor, 30 Ark. 250 ; Richardson v. Greene, 61 Fed. 423 , 9 C. C. A. 565 ; Hawthorne v. Smith, 3 Nev. 182 , 93 Am. Dec. 397 ; Bliss, Code Pl. 437; 1 Ency. Pl. & Pr. 915.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hancock v. Luke
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.