Cooke v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Burks v. Webb, Administratrix (1957), Watts v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (1988)
8 federal appellate · 15 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 Yeary v. Holbrook · Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Folkes · Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson · R. F. Trant, Inc. v. Upton · Harris v. Royer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In instruction C, requested by the defendants, the court properly eliminated the words ‘in any extent’, as measuring the quantum of contributory negligence to bar a recovery. Contributory negligence as a defense must be more than merely trivial, it must be a contributing cause of the accident.””
2 later decisions 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.