Cottrill v. Pinkerton’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1968
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Photographs are receivable in evidence when they are exact reproductions of persons or situations, when they are not too remote, and where they are not likely to give a wrong impression or create undue sympathy or prejudice on the part of the jury. Jones, Evidence, sec. 582. There must always be some substantial, legitimate reason for the use of such representations or they should not be received.””
2 later decisions 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.