Cooper v. Beers’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1942 · most notably Hovland v. Farmers' State Bank of Christine (1926), Stevenson v. Baker (1932)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 25 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 Wyman v. United States · Goldgart v. People ex rel. Goar · Hayes v. Hayes · Davis v. Davis · Moore v. Jordan
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the only property right which there can be in a debt is the mere right to receive payment of it, it is impossible that there can be anything of a tangible nature connected with such right which can occupy locality, and so the property right must accompany and remain with the person of the owner of the debt, and therefore it can not be in this State when the domicile of the owner is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Headen v. Cohn
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.