Cole v. . Malcolm’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Gerseta Corporation v. Equitable Trust Co. (1926), Claim of Wilbur v. Estate of Warren (1887)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of subrogation applies where a party is compelled to pay the debt of a third person to protect his own rights, or to save his own property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Bruce
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.