Cook v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Woodward v. Ortiz (1951), Miles v. Martin (1959)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 109 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.
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The character of an instrument, as constituting a deed to land or merely a quitclaim deed, is to be determined according to whether it assumes to convey the property described and upon its face has that effect, or merely professes to convey the grantor’s title to the property. If, according to the face of the instrument, its operation is to convey the property itself, it is a deed. If, on the other hand, it purports to convey no more than the title of the grantor, it is only a quitclaim deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldwin v. Drew““And it is my intention here now to convey to the said A. A. Neff all the real estate that I own in said town of Paducah * * * whether it is set out above or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.