The Lessor of John Fisher v. William Cockerell’s Empirical Analysis
1831
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1957
3 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie appellate court cannot know what evidence was given to the jury, unless it be spread on the record in proper legal manner. The unauthorized cer- (Ificate of tlie clerk that any document was road, or any evidence given, to the jury, cannot make that document or that evidence a part of the record, so as to bring it to the cognizance of this court.””
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.