Cake v. Mohun’s Empirical Analysis
164 U.S. 311 · 1896
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Wright v. Vinton Branch of Mountain Trust Bank (1937), United States v. Sylacauga Properties, Inc. (1963)
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Barton v. Barbour · Thompson v. Phenix Ins Co of Brooklyn N Y · Davis v. Gray · Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg · Cowdrey et al. v. Galveston Houston and Henderson Railroad Company et al.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Admitting to its fullest extent the general proposition laid down by tMs court in Cowdrey v. Galveston, Houston, etc., R. Co., 93 U. S. 352 , 23 L. Ed. 950 , that a receiver has no authority, as such, to continue and carry on the business of which he is appointed receiver, there is a discretion on the part of the eourt to permit this to be done temporarily when the interests of the parties seem to require it. Under such circumstances, the power of the receiver to incur obligations for supplies and materials incidental to the business follows as a necessary incident to the receivership.””
3 later decisions 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.