Cotham v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Herndon v. Anderson (1933), Oliver v. Southern Trust Co. (1919)
43 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 Cribbs v. Benedict · Griffin v. Rhoton · Wells, Fargo & Company's Express v. Crawford County · Little Rock & Fort Smith Ry. v. Worthen · State v. Marsh
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All property subject to taxation shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as the General Assembly shall direct, making the same equal and uniform throughout the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Herndon v. Anderson
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.