Coley v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2005
12 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 Mitchell v. Caplinger · Selig v. Botts · Alexander v. Raney · Murdock Acceptance Corp. v. Speer · Simpson v. McDonald
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We come then to the difficult question as to the power of this Court to apportion the insurance proceeds on the basis of the repairs made. The older cases hold that, when a special contract had been performed only in part, then there could be no recovery on a quantum meruit basis. Simpson v. McDonald, 2 Ark. 370 ; Manuel v. Campbell, 3 Ark. 324 . But over the years there has been a constant tendency to find a way to prevent the working party from losing his entire outlay. In Selig v. Botls, 128 Ark. 167 , 193 S.W. 534 , the Court in effect, divided the contract, and allowed recovery for the part that was performed; and in Mitchell v. Caplinger, 97 Ark. 278 , 133 S.W. 1032 , a contractor was allowed part recovery even though the owner had to make further expenditures to complete the building.””
2 later decisions 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.