Cowhick v. Shingle’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1992
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the time of the organization of the territory of Wyoming, in 18G8, the' rule that one joint debtor was affected by the partial payment of his codebtor in such way as to deprive him (the former) of the benefit of the statute prevailed in only a few of the states of the Union, to wit, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, Georgia, Oregon, North Carolina, Missouri, and perhaps, at that date, Minnesota and one or two other states. In all the other states, and in England as well, the rule had been entirely overthrown, either by judicial decision or by legislative enactment.” :”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bergman v. Bly
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.