Coleman v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1942 · most notably Ray County Savings Bank v. Hutton (1909), State ex rel. Hadley v. Adkins (1909)
25 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 Harding v. Bedoll · Stark v. Zehnder · Pennowfsky v. Coerver · Hill v. Butler County
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At a trial to a jury, semble, the verdict was in favor of plaintiff, and defendant ostensibly appealed; but through inadvertence he has made it impossible for us to consider his appeal, and it must be dismissed for reasons. For instance: (1) Because ( imprimis ) *Page 898 there is here no certified copy of the record entry of the judgment appealed from, `showing the term and day of the term, month and year upon which the same shall have been rendered, together with the order granting the appeal,' as required by Section 813, Revised Statutes 1899.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurman v. Smith“. . . and this for the reason that in a short transcript such paper is the basis of our jurisdiction and is of easy access.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thurman v. Smith
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.