Cotten v. Christen’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2011
22 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 Speyrer v. Miller · State ex rel. Behan v. Judge Sixth District Court · State ex rel. Hake v. Judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court · Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas Railroad v. Barksdale · Lafleur v. Mouton
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no right to cut the timber on the land without the consent of his co-owner ... for the act is in the nature of a trespass.”
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.