State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably United States v. Merrill (1954), 22 Wash. 2d 212 - Towey v. Seattle-First National Bank (1945)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Poe v. Seaborn · Lang v. Commissioner · Occidental Life Insurance v. Powers · Schramm v. Steele · Moffitt v. Kelly
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o new right or interest is generated in the [surviving spouse] by the death of [the other]; his [or her] death merely affords the occasion for the termination of the [deceased spouse's] interest in the community estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Neither spouse shall devise or bequeath by will more than one-half of the community property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olver v. Fowler
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.