Kaplan v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Brissie v. Craig (1950), Allen v. Pugh (1921)
2 federal appellate · 69 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 Goodman v. Winter · Foster v. Napier · Matthews v. McDade · Lyons v. Campbell · Rapier v. Gulf City Paper Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A plea in abatement because of another suit pending bears a strong analogy to a plea of res judicata, and a fair test of its sufficiency is whether a final judgment or decree in the prior suit would ' be conclusive between the parties and operate as a bar to the second. * * *””
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.