Cook v. Maier’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dillon v. Legg (1968), 59 Cal. 2d 295 - Amaya v. Home Ice, Fuel & Supply Co. (1963)
31 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 5 E.H. Smith 107 - Mitchell v. . Rochester Railway Co. · Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co. · California Trust Co. v. Cohn · Consolidated Reservoir & Power Co. v. Scarborough · Ewing v. Pittsb. C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a vacant lot, the property of plaintiff adjoining her home, where with a loud noise and crash, it collided with a trash burner, thereafter running into a rock and board fence and the corner of her house, all within fifteen feet of her, and causing rocks and parts of the fence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to be thrown and scattered over plaintiff's said property in the direction of plaintiff and about the person of plaintiff”
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.