Cain v. Rea’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Walker · Clark v. Oliver · Forsberg v. Zehm · Globe Furniture Co. v. Trustees of Jerusalem Baptist Church · Trustees Franklin St. Church v. Davis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The mechanic's lien action] does not arise out of, nor is it the essence of the contract for labor, nor dependent on the motives which suggest its being enforced.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“performing labor or furnishing materials”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entered into a valid contract of employment with the congregation of the church . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.