Cornelius v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1940 · most notably Woodhouse v. Woodhouse Et Ux. (1925), Cook v. Pulitzer Publishing Co. (1912)
2 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 Nichols v. Nichols · Tucker v. Tucker · Reed v. Reed · Hutcheson v. Peck · Brown v. . Brown
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If defendant was entitled to the presumption of good faith, as he was, its existence should not have been left to be felt out and inferred by way of implication and argument by the jury, but it should have been boldly and plainly declared.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A lie is never privileged. It always has malice coiled up within it. When a man coins and utters a lie, or when be repeats it knowing it to be false, .the law implies malice, and be cannot shelter himself behind the doctrine of privileged communications.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Link v. Hamlin
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.