Cook v. Hollyday’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Shedlock v. Marshall (1946), Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Sybert (1983)
2 district · 25 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 Zimmerman v. Bitner · Mead v. Gilbert · Griffith v. Diffenderffer · Bowman v. Little · Baker v. Otto
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[TJhere is an obvious difference between a gift whereby the donor strips himself of the enjoyment of his property while living and a gift by will, which takes effect only from the death of the testator. In cases of gifts by will the fact that a party is largely benefited by a will prepared by himself is nothing more than a suspicious circumstance of more or less weight according to the facts of the case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" 'No part of the jurisdiction of the court is more useful, it has been said, than that which it exercises in watching and controlling transactions between parties standing in a relation of confidence to each other. *** The broad principle *** is that wherever there exists such a confidence *** the court will not allow any transaction between the parties to stand, unless there has been the fullest and fairest explanation and communication of every particular resting in the breast of the one who seeks to establish a contract with the person so trusting him.’ ” Baker, 180 Md. at 56 , 22 A.2d at 926 (emphasis added).”
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.