Cole v. State of Arkansas’s Empirical Analysis
338 U.S. 345 · 1949
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Gregory v. City of Chicago (1969), United States v. Nersesian (1987)
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 Cole v. State of Arkansas · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Cole, Jones and Bean v. State · Cole, Jones, and Bean v. State
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [W]e are not called upon to decide whether a state has power to incriminate by his mere presence an innocent member of a group when some individual without his encouragement or concert commits an act of violence. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * any person acting either by himself, or as a member of any group or organization or acting in concert with one or more other persons, to promote, encourage or aid any such unlawful assemblage. * * * ””
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.