Cook v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably Braley v. Spragins (1930), Bell v. Killian (1957)
43 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 Mowry v. Norman · Garland v. Smith · Burnet v. Burnet · Cross v. Hoch · Weiermueller v. Scullin
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only sales or transfers for her personal uses, comfort and enjoyment and did not include gifts by deed or will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to sell and dispose of it as she may see fit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.