Cole v. . Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably Parker v. Parker (1960), McPherson v. First & Citizens National Bank of Elizabeth City (1954)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Mason v. . White · Wise v. Leonhardt. · Sawyer Ex Rel. Spence v. Toxey · Walker v. Johnston · Shull v. . Johnson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A subsequent decision cannot, by mere implication, be held to overrule a prior case unless the principle is directly involved and the inference is clear and compelling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I will devise and bequeath to my beloved nephews and any other children who may be born to Robert and Peg Cole, my house and lot at 301 Fayetteville together with the contents and the lot west of the home on Fayetteville Road.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]ules as to the determination of classes are simply rebuttable presumptions.”
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.