Cosper v. Frederick’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2016
1 federal appellate ·
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 In the Matter of Jack Robinson, Bankrupt · Edwards v. Whitfield (In Re Whitfield) · Williston Cooperative Credit Union v. Horob (In Re Horob) · Asgeirsson v. Delillo (In Re Delillo) · New York State Higher Education Services Corp. v. Gilstrap (In Re Gilstrap)
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is for this Court and not the clerk, however, to determine the legal sufficiency of documents tendered for filing. This is especially true when the actions of the clerk result to alter the substantive rights of the parties.”
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.