Cook v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1968
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my property both real and personal to my six children, Emma S. Cook, wife of William W. Smalley; Ella P. Cook, Lewis S. Cook, Laura K. Cook, Frederick H. Cook and Jessie M. Cook, to be divided equally among them share and share alike, to them, their heirs and assigns forever, in case any of my said children die before receiving their share leaving issue then I give, devise and bequeath to such issue the share the parent would have taken if living.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rusch v. Melosh
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.