Cochran v. Hamblen’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Illinois Cent Co v. Crail (1930), Barger v. Webb (1965)
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Sonnentheil v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. · Burton v. Driggs · Cox v. McLaughlin · Canal Company v. Gordon · San Pedro Lumber Co. v. Reynolds
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that the testimony of plaintiff was sufficiently corroborated to warrant the court in instructing the jury as to the value of old business, as set out in section 5 of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hart v. Wilson
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.