Cook v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Opinion of the Justices (1956), Leonard v. Lyons (1920)
26 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 Maxwell v. State · State ex rel. Vandiver v. Burke · Stein v. Leeper · Larkin v. Simmons
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On identical considerations we now hold that judges of probate presiding in county courts for the trial of misdemeanors are not judges of courts of record within the meaning of section 150 of the Constitution, which provides that judges of courts of record, except probate courts, shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their official terms; they shall receive no fees or perquisites.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ (2) Appellee’s right to the fees as affected by section 150 of the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.