Frierson v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably New Orleans Northeastern R. Co. v. Redmann (1946), Tucker v. Woodside (1951)
40 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 A. Baldwin & Co. v. McCain · Noe v. Maestri · Bunol v. Bunol · Dastugue v. Cohen · Lea v. Orleans
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Taking into consideration the volume of the relator's business and the volume of the business derived from the use of the music as an added attraction would in our opinion make the restricted right sought to be enjoined herein of a value in excess of $2,000. It is only reasonable to conclude that the music in the evenings after the dinner hour draws considerable trade to the relator. * * * * * * * *”
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.