Capen v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Jones Trustee Etc. v. Carpenter (1925), 619 So. 2d 267 - Palm Beach Sav. & Loan Ass'n v. Fishbein (1993)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Vallé's Heirs v. Fleming's Heirs · Bunn v. Lindsay · Kleimann v. Gieselmann · Norton v. Highleyman · Evans v. Halleck
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he doctrine of equitable lien has its prescribed boundaries . . . it is not a limitless remedy to be applied according to the . . . conscience of the particular chancellor.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sorenson v. Pyeatt
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.