Cook v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1958
1 federal appellate · 6 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What is this basis for conveying in trust for creditors, to which allusion is made? It is the right which every man having the general capacity to contract has to make honest and nnforbidden contracts, and the right of disposition which is incident to ownership.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Farrell““The right to make it (a general assignment) results from that absolute ownership which every man claims over that which is his own.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Farrell
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.