Cooper v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.2d 195 · 1937
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2020 · most notably Sure-Tan, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1984), Gordon v. United States (1971)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Berger v. United States · Burton v. United States · Moses Haas v. William Henkel
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] probation order is 'an authorized mode of mild and ambulatory punishment, the probation being intended as a reforming discipline.'”
5 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.