Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 1962 · most notably Bremer v. Bremer (1952), Blocker v. Blocker (1931)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Bond v. Moore · Carper v. Crowl · Lachenmyer v. Gehlbach · Golladay v. Knock · Boyd v. Strahan
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.
““It cannot be doubted that, if it lies in the power of the contracting parties to control all interests given under the will, then such parties have power to supersede the will by a contract that the property shall be treated as intestate property and partitioned as such.””
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.