Cole v. Associated Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
12 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Marshak v. Marshak (1993), Litchfield Asset Management Corp. v. Howell (2002)
12 district · 86 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 State v. Ibraimov · Dettenborn v. Hartford-National Bank & Trust Co. · Santoro v. Mack · Kimball v. Harman · Farley-Harvey Co. v. Madden
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]here is no such thing as a civil action for conspiracy. The action is for damages caused by acts committed pursuant to a formed conspiracy rather than by the conspiracy itself.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“could have so easily procured the advantage . . . which they did obtain in the second action by getting an order . . . in the first action . . . the second action . . . was unreasonable.”
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.