Cook v. Hirschberg’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.2d 56 · 1958
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Dayco Corp. v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1975), Clark v. Tarrant County (1986)
30 federal appellate · 3 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 Engl v. Ætna Life Ins. · Grant v. Grant · McDonald v. Hartford Trust Co. · Padula v. Padula
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]ppeals have to be taken from final judgments, not from judicial rationales. And court judgments may of course be supported by any sound judicial argumentationor by none at all if they are correct legally. Judges have at least the solace of knowing that only judicial deedsnot judicial wordsmay constitute legal error." Cook v. Hirschberg, 258 F.2d 56, 57 (2d Cir. 1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendants' filing of affidavits with their motion essentially converted it into a motion for summary judgment, F.R. 12(b), and placed upon plaintiffs an obligation to reveal the merits of their case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. Holbrook
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.