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Cemetery Perpetual Care Trust Investments (The Components of Care trusts' corpus) (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Schedule of Trading Securities and Other Trading Assets [Line Items]
Care trusts’ corpus	$ 49,184,000csv_CareTrustsCorpus	$ 48,142,000csv_CareTrustsCorpus
Fair value measurements, transfers between Level 1 and Level 2	0csv_FairValueMeasurementsTransfersBetweenLevel1AndLevel2
Perpetual Care Trust Invesments [Member]
Schedule of Trading Securities and Other Trading Assets [Line Items]
Trust assets, at fair value	49,249,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesCurrent / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember	48,670,000us-gaap_AvailableForSaleSecuritiesCurrent / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember
Obligations due from trust	(65,000)csv_ObligationsDueToTrust / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember	(528,000)csv_ObligationsDueToTrust / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember
Care trusts’ corpus	$ 49,184,000csv_CareTrustsCorpus / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember	$ 48,142,000csv_CareTrustsCorpus / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = csv_PerpetualCareTrustInvesmentsMember

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The total liability as of the balance sheet date from proceeds deposited into trust from the sale of cemetery property interment rights, including undistributed earnings on investments.

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Fair Value Measurements, Transfers Between Level 1 and Level 2

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Obligations Due To Trust

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Amount of investment in debt and equity securities categorized neither as trading securities nor held-to-maturity securities and intended be sold or mature one year or operating cycle, if longer.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 320

-SubTopic 10

-Section 25

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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=28360136&loc=d3e22054-111558



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