Warner v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably Moschos v. Bayless (1927), Tomlin v. Roberts (1927)
27 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 Atlantic Delaine Co. v. James · Gordon v. Butler · Mumford v. Tolman · Weissenfels v. Cable · Jennings v. Brown
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that where the gravamen of the action pleaded is one which would have been for the conscientious determination of the chancellor under rules of equity, before the general adoption of codes, the cause is one essentially in equity, and that though its form may be in ejectment, yet where the law feature, the possession, follows merely as an incident'to the determination of the equitable issue on which it rests, it is not one for the recovery of specific real estate.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“- “Issues of law must be tried by the court, unless referred. Issues of fact arising in actions for the recovery of money, or of specific real or personal property, shall be tried by a jury, unless a jury trial is waived, or a reference be ordered, as hereinafter provided.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Limitation of Real Actions. Actions for the recovery of real property, or for the determination of any adverse right or interest therein, can only be .brought, within the periods hereinafter prescribed, after the cause of action shall have accrued, and at no time thereafter: * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tomlin v. Roberts
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.