Cade v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2002
16 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think, by analogy, that the period of limitations applicable for the fraud is the same as that which would apply to an action for the land, to wit: seven years from the discovery of the fraud; ...”
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.