Cone v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2016
19 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 62 So. 2d 907 - Cone v. Cone · Baskin v. Klemm
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the time he is clothed with judicial authority he is a marked man... . The judiciary is the capstone of our democracy but it will be so no longer than its deportment warrants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] trial court is without authority to alter or evade the mandate of an appellate court absent permission to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he administration of justice is the most important business of the State. Said Emanual Comptee: `When justice is gone it is no longer important that men live on this earth.'”
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.