Cain v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Seay v. Hall · Schwab v. Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. State · Fox v. Burgess · Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Campbell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t enables the court to arrive at conclusions that will effectuate justice while maintaining simultaneously the appearance of logical consistency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the party upon whom [the statute] is to operate may with reasonable certainty ascertain what the statute requires to be done.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Broadly speaking, the relation-back doctrine may be applied to give effect to the parties’ lawful intentions, preserve rights that would otherwise be lost, or afford a remedy when none would otherwise exist.... When parties enter into a contract the law presumes they intend the consequences of its performance. It follows that performance or implementation of the contractual provisions relate back to and are authorized at the time of execution of the contract.”
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.