Cochran v. Schell Schell’s Empirical Analysis
107 U.S. 617 · 1882
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1980 · most notably United States v. Stone & Downer Co. (1927), Cadwalader v. Zeh (1894)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 Smythe v. Fiske · Reiche v. Smythe · Arthur v. Lahey · Arthur v. Morrison · Movius v. Arthur
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The designations qualified by the word ‘cotton) in the act of 1846 are designations-of articles by special description, as contra-distinguished from descriptions by a commercial name or a name of trade. They are designations of quality and material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all manufactures composed wholly of cotton, which are bleached, printed, painted or dyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cadwalader v. Zeh“all manufactures composed wholly of cotton, which are bleached, printed or dyed,”
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.