Cohen v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
December 1974
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Seeger · Desist v. United States · Welsh II v. United States · Witmer v. United States · Braunfeld v. Gibbons
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the rest of the word [world] fester in its nurseries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cohen v. Laird
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.