Cooper v. Pena’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Joy v. City of St Louis (1891), Poultry Producers of Southern California, Inc. v. Barlow (1922)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 54 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 Seymour v. Delancey
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is an action to compel the defendant to convey to the plaintiff a tract of land . . . .”
1 later decision 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.