Coco v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1978
13 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 State ex rel. Billon v. Bourgeois · State ex rel. Moore v. Reid · State v. Kellam · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Cheevers · State ex rel. Cheevers v. Duffel
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant invokes the provision in-the third paragraph of the seventh section of article 9 of the Constitution that, in a case like this, finally decided in favor of the defendant, he shall have judgment for all costs and for a reasonable fee for his attorney. The defendant, of course, has not paid or advanced any court costs. If the costs have not been paid by the Attorney General, it is because the suit has been regarded as an action by the state. We do not find any authority for condemning any particular individual, or the state, to pay the defendant’s attorneys’ fees. Therefore, until there is some legislation on the subject, we shall decline to give judgment for an attorney’s fee in such case.”.”
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.