Cockrell v. Work’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1972
12 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until article 5323 was enacted [in 1919], there was no law in existence except that of the Act of April 15, 1905, which authorized any one to bring a suit against adversaries claiming land as patented, except the Attorney General and except where the commissioner of the general land office had sold the land, and, under the provisions of the Act of April 15, 1905, a purchaser was authorized to bring suit.” (Id.)”
1 later decision 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.