Coffin v. Ransdell’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1925
22 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 Scovill v. Thayer · Sawyer v. Hoag · Lorillard v. . Clyde · Wetherbee v. Baker · Van Cott v. . Van Brunt
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Many attempts have been made in cases where stock was issued for property taken at an overvaluation to hold the party receiving such stock liable for its full par value, less the actual value of the property received from him. These attempts have not been successful. As already seen, the transaction is upheld as legal and valid and binding on all parties, unless there is an overvaluation, and that overvaluation is shown to have been fraudulent. When this is proved, then, the contract is to be treated like other fraudulent contracts. It is to be adopted in toto or rescinded in toto and set aside. Both parties are to be restored as nearly as possible to their original positions. The property, or its value, is to be returned to tire person receiving the stock, and he must return the stock or its real value.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Du Pont v. Tilden
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.