Cockerell v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1961
17 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 Tunison v. Chamblin · Ogden Building & Loan Ass'n v. Mensch · Williams v. Pouns · Kerr v. Russell · 28 Tex. Civ. App. 292 - Southern Oil Co. v. Colquitt
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shocks the moral sense of community to say the unsupported testimony of an interested witness, who sees a fortune in his success, shall destroy the deliberate act of an officer appointed by law to do the act he certifies, under the solemn sanctions of an oath, he has done. Such is not the law, such is not justice, and such a rule would throw land titles into chaos.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Stewart
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.