Cooper v. Crabb’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 753 So. 2d 1057 - McNeil v. Hester (2000), 764 So. 2d 373 - City of Jackson v. Perry (2000)
94 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 525 So. 2d 746 - UHS-Qualicare, Inc. v. GULF COAST COM. HOSP., INC. · 515 So. 2d 1183 - Mullins v. Ratcliff · Commerce Trust Co. v. Watts · 501 So. 2d 416 - Cherry v. Anthony, Gibbs, Sage · Chippendale v. North Adams Savings Bank
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeal this Court will not reverse a Chancery Court's findings, be they of ultimate fact or of evidentiary fact, where there is substantial evidence supporting those findings.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding our respect for and deference to the trial judge, on matters of law it is our job to get it right. That the trial judge may have come close is not good enough.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the language of a legal text is without gross ambiguity, neither parol testimony nor other extrinsic evidence are admissible to show meaning.”
3 later decisions 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.