Cady v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably Campbell v. Department of Civil Service (1963), Leonard v. Willcox (1928)
25 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 Presser v. State of Illinois · Bird v. United States · Sichler v. Look · Brooks v. Cooper · Consumers' Oil Co. v. Nunnemaker
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ If this be not so, and a state of circumstances similar to that suggested above' as consequent on such acts of voluntary disqualification, can lawfully exist in connection with the operation of our judiciary system, where, in the eyes of the public, are to be found the purity, the integrity, and the impartiality of the courts, contemplated by the Constitution which have ever been averred by the people of the State, and which must be maintained or the honor of the courts will soon be prostrate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The courts of justice shall be open for the trial of all causes proper for their cognizance; and justice shall be therein impartially administered, without corruption or unnecessary delay.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leonard v. Willcox““Every man is entitled by law not only to a fair trial of his case, but to one as free as may be from suspicion of partiality. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leonard v. Willcox
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.