Garcia v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 193 Ill. 2d 433 - Neade v. Portes (2000), Sonntag v. Shaw (2001)
2 district · 30 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 BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · TXO Production Corp. v. Alliance Resources Corp. · 51 Cal. 3d 120 - Moore v. Regents of University of California · Belvedere Condominium Unit Owners' Ass'n v. R.E. Roark Companies, Inc. · Linthicum v. Archambault
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sustain [the][p]laintiffs cause of action for fraud and that it was ivithin the province of the judge or jury to award nominal damages to acknowledge that the cause of action was established and punitive damages to punish [the defendant] for violating Plaintiffs rights.”
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.