Cochrane v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1974
14 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 Claflin v. Dunne · Great West Min. Co. v. Woodmas of Alston Min. Co. · Reid v. Holmes · Coleman v. McAnulty · Smith v. District Court of Arapahoe County
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The fixing of a time for the trial of a cause is not an act required or prescribed by either code or statute, and it is clearly within the inherent powers of the court of its own motion to take such steps, and make such orders, as may be necessary to the dispatch of its business, and the disposition of causes pending on its docket.””
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.