Cook v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.2d 423 · 1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2016
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Pepper v. Litton · Baumgartner v. United States · Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · McMullen v. Hoffman · Loughran v. Loughran
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What, then, was the purpose of placing this provision in the contract, a provision which every one knew could not be complied with? And, the answer was: ‘It is clear that it was the intention of the parties to the contract to prevent creditors from acquiring any interest in the 8,250 shares of stock by judgment against the partnership ... or other legal process’ ””
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.