Cook v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2000
1 district · 10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Satisfactory evidence is that which ordinarily produces moral certainty or conviction in an unprejudiced mind. It alone will justify a verdict. Evidence less than this is insufficient evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]roof by a `preponderance of the evidence' means that the [factfinder] must believe that the facts asserted are more probably true than false[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carlson“proof by `clear and convincing evidence' means that the truth of the facts asserted is highly probable.”
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.