State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1923
3 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 Funk v. St. Paul City Railway Co. · Lincoln Street Railway Co. v. McClellan · Louisville & Portland Railroad v. Louisville City Railway Co.
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.
““The authorities generally hold that street-railways are not included in the word ‘railroads,’ and the provisions of the statute of the different states concerning railroads have not been held to include street-railways.” (p. 189.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Every person who shall wilfully . . . break . . . . (or) injure . . . any . . . car . . . which now is or which may hereafter be in use upon any railroad in this state . . . shall on conviction thereof be punished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.