Pico v. Cohn’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 246 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 50 Cal. 3d 205 - Silberg v. Anderson (1990), Alexander v. Hagedorn (1950)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 224 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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. Throckmorton · In re Estate of Griffith · Verplanck v. . Van Buren · Laithe v. McDonald · Dringer v. Receiver of the Erie Railway
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 246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie reason of this rule is, that there must be an end of litigation; and when parties have once submitted a matter, or have had the opportunity of submitting it, for investigation and determination, and when they have exhausted every means for reviewing such determination in the same proceedings, it must be regarded as final and conclusive, unless it can be shown that the jurisdiction of the court has been imposed upon, or that the prevailing party, by some extrinsic or collateral fraud, has prevented a fair submission of the controversy.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Endless litigation, in which nothing was ever finally determined, would be worse than occasional miscarriages of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“questions examined and determined in the action”
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.