Coles v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2004
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Hamilton v. Beardslee · Hartford Fire Insurance v. Vanduzor · Kiser v. Heuston
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The clerk put his file mark upon it, and also docketed it in the probate docket. It then ... most certainly became a part of the records of the court. It had passed completely out of the control of the party filing it, and it could not be subsequently withdrawn without an order of court. The clerk had no authority to permit its withdrawal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Snyder v. Nolen
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.