Cook v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Giles v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (2007), NC-DSH, INC. v. Garner (2009)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 Williams v. Waldman · Stoecklein v. Johnson Electric, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ts determination will not be disturbed on appeal absent an abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions 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.