State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 1968 · most notably Louisiana Board of Pharmacy v. Smith (1952), New Orleans Northeastern R. Co. v. Redmann (1946)
60 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 Norwood v. Lake Bisteneau Oil Co. · Nelson v. Continental Asphalt & Petroleum Co. · Wolf v. Thomas · A. Baldwin & Co. v. McCain · Hanover Fire Ins. Co. v. Southern Amusement Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In determining whether this court has appellate jurisdiction because of the amount in dispute, or because of the value of the thing in dispute, or because of the subject matter of the suit, in a given case, the record must show affirmatively that the court has appellate jurisdiction; otherwise the appeal must be dismissed or transferred to the Court of Appeal. Nick v. Bensberg, 123 La. 351 , 48 So. 986 ; Succession of Lynch, 124 La. 127 , 49 So. 1002 ; Weis v. New Orleans Board of Trade, 125 La. 1010 , 52 So. 130 . According to Section 29 of Article VII of the Constitution the Courts of Appeal have appellate jurisdiction over all civil cases of which the District Courts have exclusive original jurisdiction and of which the Supreme Court is not given appellate jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * It is the subject matter that is in contest before and at the time when the judgment is rendered in the court of original jurisdiction that determines what court if any has appellate jurisdiction in a given case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as fixed and established by Section 10 of Article 7 of the Constitution of 1921, may be said to extend to seven different classes of cases which can be enumerated as follows : “L Civil Cases: That includes Civil suits where the amount in dispute or the fund to be distributed, irrespective of the amount therein claimed, shall exceed $2000.00 exclusive of interest, except * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Tillman
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.