Cooper v. Hiner’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably City of Beaumont v. Moore (1947), Cotten v. Republic National Bank of Dallas (1965)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each point under each one of the assignments relied upon shall be stated in the shape of a proposition, unless the assignment itself is in the shape of a proposition to be maintained, and then it will be sufficient to copy the assignment.”
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.