Cain v. Bain’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1,601 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,601 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Ellis (1998), Brooks v. State (2010)
1,601 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana))
Relationships
Relies on In Re King's Estate · Dyson v. Olin Corp.
Cited together with In Re King's Estate · City of Keller v. Wilson · Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Plas-Tex, Inc. v. U.S. Steel Corp. · Maritime Overseas Corp. v. Ellis
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 1,601 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence as to be clearly wrong and unjust.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“against the great weight and preponderance”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Dorothy Herbert substantially complied with the duties and obligations required of her under the property settlement agreement contained in the divorce decree dated August 12th, 1977. In answering the above and foregoing Special Issue you are instructed that substantial compliance as used in this Special Issue is a performance of all important particulars and permits only such omissions or deviations from the agreement as are inadvertent and unknowingly and was [sic] not due to bad faith. Answer “She did substantially comply” or “She did not substantially comply”. ANSWER: She did not substantially comply.”
3 later decisions 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.