Cole v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1942
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Keyser v. Rice · Engel v. Scheuerman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is: Under what circumstances will a court of equity restrain a party from invoking the aid of the courts and processes of another state? It certainly will not do that simply to compel him to carry on his litigation at home. It will not act upon the basis of any distrust of the courts of a sister state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.