Cooper v. Dasher’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 106 · 1933
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1984 · most notably Maggio v. Zeitz (1948), Boone v. Lightner (1943)
25 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDasher v. Cooper (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Oriel v. Russell · Kirby v. Tallmadge · Marks v. . Cowdin · 7 E.H. Smith 534 - Ketchum v. . Edwards
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Misunderstanding of the mandate is upon the facts in this record an illusory peril. The order gives the only description that the nature of the case allows. The respondent, and no one else, is in a position to supply a better one. The mandate is addressed to him, and to him its meaning is definite, however indefinite to others. If it is clear enough to be understood, it is clear enough to be obeyed * * * ” Cooper v. Dasher, 1933, 290 U.S. 106, 109-110 , 54 S.Ct. 6, 7 , 78 L.Ed. 203 , 4 Moore 2448, n. 19.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Words after all are symbols, and the significance of the symbols varies with the knowledge and experience of the mind receiving them.” Justice Cardozo in Cooper v. Dasher, 54 S. Ct. 6 , 78 L. Ed. —.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darling v. Semler“all evidence is to be weighed according to the proof which it was in the power of one side to have produced and in the power of the other side to have contradicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boone v. Lightner
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.