Proctor v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Hamilton v. Browning (1952), W. M. Templeton & Son v. David (1937)
37 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 Morgan Hill Paving Co. v. Fonville · Dwight Mfg. Co. v. Word · McGeever v. O'Byrne · Crescent Motor Co. v. Stone · Walker County v. Davis
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Moreover, since the charge was misleading, if the trial court in its discretion found that by reason of such tendency a new trial should have been granted, his act in that respect will be reviewed with the same presumption as is usual in the exercise of such power. . . ."”
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.