Perot v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Davis v. Pursel (1913), Jackson v. A.B.Z. Lumber Co. (1964)
31 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 Bohm v. Bohm · Whitsett v. Kershow · Armor v. Spalding · Townsend v. Petersen · Somervail v. Gillies
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Since the written contract of September, 1882, accompanying the execution of the notes, purported on its face to be an absolute contract to convey an interest in land and other property, plaintiff was entitled' to have its absolute character upheld at the trial, unless, by evidence clear, .certain and unequivocal, the fact was established beyond substantial .doubt that such contract was in fact given and accepted merely as collateral to secure the payment of the notes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baird v. Baird“an undesignated payment will be applied to an interest bearing demand rather than to one not bearing interest,”
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.