Cole v. . Sweet’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Rosenfeld v. Basquiat (1996), Clifford v. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (1907)
3 federal appellate · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCole v. Sweet
Relationships
Relies on Nay v. . Curley · In re the Estate of Bennett · Lilley v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance · Potts v. . Mayer · Merritt 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the survivor says something on the street or volunteers information as to a transaction he had with a decedent, his statement may be proved against him as an admission without waiving any right under the statute.””
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.