Quincy v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 549 · 1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1943
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 Marshall v. Silliman · President of Keithsburg v. Frick · Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad v. Morris · Missionary Society of Church v. Kelly Same
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the acts of the city council of the city of Quincy, from June 2, 1868, to August 28,1868, in ordering an election on the proposition to subscribe the sum of $100,000 to the capital stock of the'Mississippi.and’ Missouri River Air Line Railroad Company, and the subscription to said stock, and all other acts of said council therewith, are hereby legalized and confirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quincy v. Jackson
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.