In Re: Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2009 · most notably Terry (1888), Ex parte Grossman (1925)
1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Vilas v. Burton
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power to punish for contempt is indispensable to the proper discharge of [courts'] duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. North“the connection in which they were used, the tone, the look, the manner, the emphasis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.