Cook v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Little v. Sugg (1942), Hyde v. Norris (1948)
66 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 Coghill v. Kennedy · Bancroft v. Otis · Burney v. Torrey · Raney v. Raney · Hale v. Cox
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[o]ne who, in the circumstances of the particular case, has been favored over others having equal claim to the testator's bounty. An unnatural discrimination, leading to a natural inference that advantage has been taken by one in position so to do; and shown to have been busy in getting such will executed."”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McGimsey v. Gray · Morrow v. Helms
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.