Coyle v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 108 · 1885
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1973 · most notably Sheehan v. Sullivan (1899), Mahoney v. Bostwick (1892)
9 federal appellate · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Russell v. Southard · Howland v. Blake
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘(¡Treat stress is laid, in cases of this kind, on inadequacy of consideration, where there is a considerable disproportion between the price paid and the real value of the property. There is testimony on both sides on the question of disproportion in this case. But the preponderance is very large on the part of Davis that tlie share of Coyle in the property was sold for about its sale value, in view of its conditions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cowell v. Craig
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.