Cook v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1994
11 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a sufficient answer to say that the want of notice would not in this State invalidate the title. The' sheriff may be liable, but the innocent purchaser cannot be prejudiced. The certificate of sale’ and deed are his evidence of title.””
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.