Cook v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1977
5 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 Hunt v. Rousmanier's Administrators · Munn v. Burch · National Commercial Bank v. Miller & Co. · Pullen v. Placer Country Bank · Wilson v. Turner
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From what has been stated above, it would seem to be evident that the legislature intended, by this section of the act, to change the rule in Illinois so as to make it conform to the rule which obtains in most of the other states and in England. We are of the opinion that such was and is its -effect * * *”
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.