Cowern v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Lowell Bar Ass'n v. Loeb (1943), Sharood v. Hatfield (1973)
1 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Fitchette v. Taylor · 58 Ohio App. 79 - In Re Unauthorized Practice of Law
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is the duty of this court so to regulate the practice of law and to restrain such practice by laymen in a common sense way in order to protect primarily the interest of the public and not to hamper and burden such interest with impractical technical restraints no matter how well supported such restraint may be from the standpoint of pure logic."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We do not accept the legislature's declaration that in such matters he may charge for such services."”
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.