Whitney v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 607 · 1878
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1994 · most notably Merchants' Cotton-Press Storage Co v. Insurance Co of North America National Fire Ins Co (1894), Vicksburg v. Vicksburg Waterworks Co. (1906)
28 federal appellate · 3 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our experience teaches that the only way to discourage frivolous appeals and writs of error is by the use of our power to award damages...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Seyler v. Seyler
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.