Cooper v. Wicomico County’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably Dua v. Comcast Cable of Maryland, Inc. (2002), Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission v. Riverdale Heights Volunteer Fire Co. (1987)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 32 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Hunt · Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper · State Industrial Commission of State of New York v. Nordenholt Corporation · Allied American Mutual Fire Insurance v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he lower court was correct if the operational effect of ch. 832 requires an employer or insurer to pay more than it was required to pay under the law in effect at the time of the injury. It is generally held that the basis of a compensation award is contractual and that the amount payable thereunder by an employer or insurer cannot be increased retrospectively.””
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.