Cooper v. Bigly’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Markham v. Smith (1935), McClaskey v. O'Brien (1879)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine is too familiar to need authorities that a mortgage is not merged by a purchase of a partial or entire interest in the equity of redemption, where there are intermediate rights, or where the interests of the mortgagee require the title to be kept separate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Johnson
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.