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Preneed Trust Investments (Preneed cemetery trust investment security transactions) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Schedule of Trading Securities and Other Trading Assets [Line Items]
Impairment charge for other-than-temporary declines in fair value	$ 400,000us-gaap_ImpairmentOfInvestments
Investment income		4,713,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet	4,063,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet	5,612,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet
Increase in deferred preneed cemetery receipts held in trust		(5,825,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted	(5,574,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted	(6,812,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted
Preneed Cemetery Trust Investments
Schedule of Trading Securities and Other Trading Assets [Line Items]
Impairment charge for other-than-temporary declines in fair value	200,000us-gaap_ImpairmentOfInvestments / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember		0us-gaap_ImpairmentOfInvestments / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember
Investment income		2,840,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	3,349,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	4,038,000us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeNet / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember
Realized gains		5,712,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedGains / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	3,018,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedGains / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	10,497,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedGains / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember
Realized losses		(2,789,000)us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedLosses / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	(763,000)us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedLosses / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	(3,574,000)us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesGrossRealizedLosses / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember
Expenses and taxes		(1,716,000)us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInvestmentExpense / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	(2,934,000)us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInvestmentExpense / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	(2,769,000)us-gaap_InvestmentIncomeInvestmentExpense / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember
Increase in deferred preneed cemetery receipts held in trust		$ (4,047,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	$ (2,670,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember	$ (8,192,000)us-gaap_IncreaseDecreaseInMarketableSecuritiesRestricted / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PreneedCemeteryTrustInvestmentsMember

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