Coombs v. Darling’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably White v. Burns (1990), Pizzola v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1974)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 18 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 Hartley v. Vitiello · Clegg v. Bishop · State v. Staub · Sage v. Hawley · Appeal of New York, New Haven & Hartford 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As in this case more than one year had elapsed after the neglect and injury of which complaint is made before the action was brought, it was barred by the statute of limitations. “There is no error. “In this opinion the other Judges concurred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In computing the time limited in the several cases aforesaid, the time during which the party, against whom there may be any such cause of action, shall be without this State, shall be excluded from the computation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vaughn v. Deitz“The obvious purpose of this section was to afford a means by which the equivalent of personal service might be made upon a nonresident although he was not actually within the State.”
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.