Cooper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 216 · 1925
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1976 · most notably Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States (1927), Continental Baking Company v. United States of America, American Bakeries Company v. United States of America, Colonial Baking Company of Memphis v. United States (1960)
41 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Cooper
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is practically always established by circumstantial evidence, and this method in no sense amounts to the building of one presumption upon another.”
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.