Coats v. Milner’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Fulcher v. Dierks Lumber & Coal Co. (1924), Purser v. Corpus Christi State National Bank (1974)
5 federal appellate · 33 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 Bivins v. McElroy · Hicks v. Maness
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The counterclaim mentioned in this chapter may be any cause of action in favor of the defendants, or some of them, against the plaintiffs, or some of them.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Glover · Martin v. Romes““The counterclaim mentioned in this chapter must be a cause of action in favor of the defendants, or some of them, against the plaintiffs, or some of them, arising out of the contract or transactions set forth in the complaint, as the foundation of the plaintiff’s claim or connected with the subject of the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Glover
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.