Jackson v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1953
7 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 Rottman v. Beverly · Burvant v. Wolfe · Tyer v. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. · Hicks v. Texas & N. O. R. Co. · Iglesias v. Campbell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the recent case of Rottman v. Beverly, 183 La. 947 , 165 So. 153 , has clearly modified the doctrine in so far as this state is concerned by limiting the liability in such cases only when it is shown that the defendant actually discovered the perilous position of plaintiff in time to prevent the accident, and failed to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Cook
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.