Cottrell v. Gerson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably 164 Ill. 2d 54 - Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994), 171 Ill. 2d 378 - Barnett v. Zion Park District (1996)
12 federal appellate · 65 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 Grommes v. St. Paul Trust Co. · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Clausen · Alley v. McCabe · Plummer v. Worthington · Alger v. Kennedy
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he primary duty of a pledgee is to return the article pledged to the pledgor immediately upon the performance of the obligation for which the security was given, or on tender of such performance, and his refusal so to do amounts to a wrongful conversion.”
2 later decisions 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.