Cosoff v. Rodman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
338 federal appellate · 65 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 669 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Ryder Energy Distribution Corporation v. Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc Ef (1984), Transgo, Inc. v. Ajac Transmission Parts Corp. (1985)
338 federal appellate · 65 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
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 669 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commission, the national committee of any political party, or any individual eligible to vote in any election for the office of President may institute such actions in the appropriate district court of the United States, including actions for declaratory judgment, as may be appropriate to construe the constitutionality of any provision of this Act. The district court immediately shall certify all questions of constitutionali ty of this Act to the United States court of appeals for the circuit involved, which shall hear the matter sitting en banc. ■ •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.