Cooper v. City of New York’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2011
6 federal appellate · 9 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he onerous `fellow-servant' rule, [was] developed at common law to preclude respondeat superior claims against an employer by an employee injured in the workplace due to the negligence of a co-worker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those claims for injuries caused by the negligence of a fellow police officer when the injury is related to the dangers that are associated with police.”
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.