Cooley v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1949
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor do I deem it necessary in this case that the court should determine or decide what would be the relative rights of the adopted child and the illegitimate child under said sections of the statute. Such question is not necessarily involved in this appeal . . . “The appellants are the children of the alleged illegitimate child of the decedent, William Powers, and as such are claiming the real estate in question under § 3000, supra. This section does not purport to confer any right on the descendants of illegitimate children.””
1 later decision 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.