Cocker v. Cocker’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1974
2 district · 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Chadwick v. Cornish · Perine v. Grand Lodge of Ancient Order United Workmen · Madson v. Madson · State Ex Rel. v. M. St. P. S. S. M. Ry. Co. · Kells v. Webster
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Regardless of whether Edna Cocker is still a party, we think she had an interest in the event of the issue to which her husband was a party. Should he prevail, she would immediately have an inchoate interest in the property described in the deed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Whitney
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.