Cobb v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 1963 · most notably Atlas Roofing Co. v. Hall (1952), Oakland Motor Car Co. v. Jones (1930)
97 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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our system does not favor the bringing of a multiplicity of suits, and therefore permits all causes of action growing, out of the same transaction to be joined, and all interests in the same property or fund to be litigated and the equities of the parties adjusted in the same-suit.””
2 later decisions 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.