Willison v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1971
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Chicago Burlington Quincy Railway Company v. People of the State of Illinois I O Grimwood F L · City of St. Louis v. Hill · Commonwealth v. Boston Advertising Co. · State v. . Whitlock · In re Morgan
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.
“(§ 3) “All persons have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights... of acquiring, possessing and protecting property;...” (§ 15) “Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation.” (§ 25) “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.””
1 later decision 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.