Cable v. McCune’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1943
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Heacock v. Sherman · Acks v. Ball · McDonald v. Forsyth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sum1 of ‘money due by a certain and express agreement.’ * ~ * The demand sought to he enforced in the present action is certainly not a debt in the legal acceptation of the term, and it is, to say the least, doubtful whether it could be so regarded in its popular acceptation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wellman v. Bethea
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.