Cavanagh v. Cavanagh’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably State v. Valenti (2001), Ryan v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence (2008)
59 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 United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n · Emle Industries, Inc. v. Patentex, Inc. · Wysong v. People of the State of California · Black v. Amen
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““establish affirmatively that the trial justice had personal bias or prejudice by reason of a preconceived or settled opinion of a character calculated to impair his impartiality seriously and to sway his judgment.” Cavanagh v. Cavanagh, 118 R.I. 608, 621 , 375 A.2d 911, 917 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parrillo v. Parrillo“It is generally considered a matter for the discretion of the court imposing the receivership to decide who should be appointed as receiver * * * and to decide, once a receiver has been appointed, whether he should be removed.”
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.