Holmes v. Coalson’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1953
23 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 Hahn v. Kelly · Thomson v. Locke · Hickman v. Swain · Henne & Meyer v. Moultrie · Nugent v. Powell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An appeal from a judgment sustaining the plea of privilege, either under the old law or under the present statute, would be governed by the statutes and rules applicable to appeals generally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frick Co. v. Nunn
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.