7 E.H. Smith 596 - Cooley v. . Lobdell’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 1967 · most notably Burns v. . McCormick (1922), Woolley v. . Stewart (1918)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Wright v. . Weeks · Peters v. . Delaplaine · Miller v. . Ball · Odell v. . Montross · Bruce v. . Tilson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘The more generally accepted and on the whole more satisfactory reason, however, is that, as the purchase money can be recovered back in an action and the parties thus restored 1o their original position, the party paying is not injured, no fraud is perpetrated on him by refusal to convey, and there is no occasion for a resort to equity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crowe v. Baumann
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.