Swope v. Cooksie’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1997
1 federal appellate · 20 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 151 Pa. Super. 265 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Lerner v. Smith, Warden · State v. Davisson · Toliver v. State Board of Parole · Ulrich v. O'Grady · Clay v. District Court of the Twelfth District of the State of Colorado
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of statute [,] at common law two or more sentences are to be served concurrently unless otherwise ordered by the Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deats v. State
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.