Cain v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1940
7 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 Dunbar v. Meadows · Gernhert v. Straeffer's · Goff v. Goff's Executors · Worthington v. Miller's Adm'r
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is not a case, however, where the liability of the two defendants was separate and distinct. It is a case where the notes were the joint obligations of both Cain and Christ and their liability was clearly joint. Even though Christ had not been served with summons, he was necessarily interested in defeating the suit against Cain, for in that event he would have been released from all liability by way of contribution. And being jointly interested' with Cain in defeating the notes, it follows that there was no possible way for him to testify for Cain without necessarily testifying for himself, which'the code clearly prohibits.””
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.