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Coyle v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis

1884

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
March 1967
most recently cited

1 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1967

1 district · 9 state decisions

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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.

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A legal institution, devised to confer upon the individuals of which it is composed powers, privileges, and immunities which they would not otherwise possess.””
    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.