Cochrell v. Hiatt’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2018
8 district · 10 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 Mathieson v. Hubler · Pillsbury v. Blumenthal · Southern Union Exploration Co. v. Wynn Exploration Co. · SOUTHERN UNION, ETC. v. Wynn Exploration · Andriola v. Milligan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a person is employed in work of skill, the employer buys both his labor and his judgment; he ought not to undertake the work if he cannot succeed, and he should know whether it will or not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toppino v. Herhahn
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.