Cook v. . Conners’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Dyer v. MacDougall (1952), Sidis v. FR Pub. Corporation (1940)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 30 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedCook v. Conners
Relationships
Relies on Southern Pac Co v. United States · Nesbit v. Independent District of Riverside · Secor v. . Sturgis · Bell v. . Merrifield · Perry v. . Dickerson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every separate and distinct publication of a libel is a distinct offense, for which a separate action will lie, and a recovery of damages for the first publication of the libel is no bar to an action based upon its repetition or republication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Each communication was a distinct publication which constituted, if the matter was libelous, a complete libel and a cause of action in favor of plaintiff.””
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.