If you summon a spider/cavespider with the follow range changed the spider/cavespider summoned will have the default follow range.
To reproduce put this in a command block:
/summon Spider ~ ~1 ~ {Attributes:[{Name:generic.followRange,Base:100}]}
/summon CaveSpider ~ ~1 ~ {Attributes:[{Name:generic.followRange,Base:100}]}
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Even when modifying the attributes of a normal spider (not with a summon command), they will not follow you after 16 blocks. I think something is messed up here.
This report duplicates very likely MC-32579
You are missing the attribute modifiers. See http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Chunk_format#Entity_Format