Cook v. Lillo’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 792 · 1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Thorington v. Smith · Cox v. McIntyre
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is equally well settled that, if a contract entered into under such circumstances, payable; in dollars, was, according to the understanding of the parties, to be paid -in Confederate dollars, upon proof of that fact, the party entitled to the payment can only recover the value of Confederate dollars in the lawful money of the United States,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Effinger v. Kenney
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.