Caton v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2004
4 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 Temperly v. Sarrington's Administrator · Nolan Ex Rel. Nolan v. Spears · Grocers Supply Co. v. Stuckey · Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Williams · Mason v. Stengell
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test as to remoteness is that if the offered evidence is so remote as to have no probative value it should be excluded but if it is relevant and has some degree of probative value, however small, it is admissible, and its weight is for the jury. Caton v. McGill, Ky., 488 S.W.2d 345, 346 (1972).”
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.