Cavanaugh v. Fenley’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1937
1 district · 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 Boynton v. Ball · Palmer v. Hussey · Palmer v. . Hussey · Huntington v. Saunders · Leonard v. Yohnk
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This precise question has been before the courts of other states and before the Supreme Court of the United States under the old bankruptcy act, which, in the respects here under consideration, was the same as the present act, and relief was awarded to the bankrupt similar to that here applied for.””
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.