Cowperthwaite v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2 U.S. 55 · 1790
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1943
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““New trials are frequently necessary, for the purpose of attaining complete justice; but the important right of trial by jury requires they should never be granted, without solid and substantial reasons: otherwise, the province of jurymen might be often. transferred to the judges, and they, instead of the jury, would become the r.eal triers of the facts.””
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.