Cook v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 153 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Slocum v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co. · Moore v. Illinois Central Railroad · Order of Railway Conductors of America v. Pitney · Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. v. Koppal
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously the language of defendant's [Railroad's] motion to stay in this case was copied from the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Pitney case,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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