Cocks v. Izard’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 559 · 1868
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably McArthur v. Scott (1885), Robb v. Vos (1894)
2 federal appellate · 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 Pattison v. Horn
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law will not tolerate any influence likely to prevent competition at a judicial sale, and it accords to every debtor the chance for a fair sale and full price.””
3 later decisions 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.