State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably McDonough v. WW Snow Construction Co., Inc. (1973), Morrisseau v. Fayette (1995)
2 district · 25 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 Perkins v. Vermont Hydro-Electric Corp. · Johnson v. Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. · Merrill v. Reed · Hazen v. Perkins · Doyle v. Polle
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he phrase 'law of the case' is essentially a rule of practice.... It rests for its absolute integrity upon sound public policy which does not permit the parties to go again and again to the Supreme Court upon the same question. But the power of the Court to depart from the rule, in a proper case, clearly exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen the question is of such a nature that the present welfare of the people at large, or a substantial portion thereof, is involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may consider error for the first time on appeal when the question affects the public interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JEG
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.