Cady v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1987)
1 district · 38 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 Kinnear-Weed Corp. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · Can-Am Petroleum Co. v. Beck · 4 Wash. App. 341 - Sparkman & McLean Co. v. Derber · 8 Utah 2d 370 - Andreasen v. Hansen · Walker v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(1) [lacked aln honest belief in the propriety of the activities in question; (2) ... inten{ded] to take unconscionable advantage of others; [or] (8) [had] intent to, or knowledge of the fact that the activities in question will ... hinder, delay or defraud others'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'of little weight or importance having no basis in law or fact.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“In civil actions, where not otherwise provided by statute or agreement, the court may award reasonable attorney’s fees to a prevailing party if the court determines that the action or defense to the action was without merit and not brought or asserted in good faith.”
3 later decisions 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.