Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 1987 · most notably Rubin v. Rubin (1987), Herrick v. Herrick (1925)
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Cross v. Cross · Foote v. Foote · Miller v. Clark · Von Glahn v. Von Glahn · Ressor v. Ressor
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He does not come into court with clean hands, and will not be permitted to ask relief from a decree of which he is in contempt. Before he should be permitted to be heard, he should be required to comply with the order of the court up to the time of his application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Baker
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.