Coleman v. Bent’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Bushnell v. Bushnell (1925), Grubb v. Illinois Terminal Co. (1937)
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Bryant v. Pacific Electric Railway Co. · Cotton v. Willmar & Sioux Falls Railway Co. · Cunningham v. City of Thief River Falls · Wentworth v. Town of Waterbury · Boyden v. Fitchburg Railroad
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error cannot be predicated on an expression of opinion contained in a memorandum of decision as to the facts or the law of the cause, unless such memorandum be made a part of the finding on appeal.”
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.