Freeman v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2012
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Lescale v. Joseph Schwartz Co. · Kennedy v. Item Co. · Tuyes v. Chambers · Waldo v. Morrison · Lees v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Apparently Mr. Freeman and Mrs. Cooper feel that they are above and beyond the law and even after having been slapped down by the Trial Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court surreptitiously slipped before your Honor a Rule Nisi for contempt, etc. knowing that your Honor had only recently been sworn in and could not know any of the background in regard to this matter. Apparently from my discussion with your Honor at an earlier date, Mr. Freeman did not bother to advise you of the true status of this matter in fear that your Honor would tell him that even though he may not believe in the Judicial system of our State, that your Honor does and refuse to sign the order. It is respectfully submitted that the behavior of Mr. Freeman is contemptuous to the dignity of this Honorable Court. "It is further respectfully submitted, that even in the rule filed by Freeman, he again lied to the court in regard to the visitation privileges for in his Rule Nisi, he stated that Ann Trenchard Cooper could not even transport Mr. Cooper's son to the airport serving the Charleston, Illinois area when same is only, by actual measurement, 5.7 miles from the doorstep of the house in which she is living in open and notorious adultery. Further, in the deposition given by Mrs. Cooper under oath, she admitted that she had the use of the Lincoln Continental automobile owned by her co-respondent in adultery...." * * * * * * "In respect to the attempt of Freeman and Mrs. Cooper to now attempt to ”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Cooper“[M]ental suffering alone, or only injured feelings which must inevitably be inferred from libelous statements, can be made the basis of a damage award.”
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.