Coker v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably 612 So. 2d 1087 - City of Natchez, Miss. v. Sullivan (1992), Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lodge 1858, American Federation of Government Employees v. James E. Webb, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Appeal of National Council of Technical Service Industries (1978)
22 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 Adams v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad · Greene v. Village of Rienzi · B. Altman & Co. v. Wall · Madison County v. Stewart
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here there are two conflicting provisions in the same statute, the last expression of the Legislature must prevail over the former. Undoubtedly that principle of statutory construction is sound. ( 142 Miss. at 16 , 106 So. at 887 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whole may have a harmonious and consistent operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.