Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works’s Empirical Analysis
237 U.S. 413 · 1915
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 42 district · 185 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 475 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Gault (1967), Fuentes v. Shevin (1972)
77 federal appellate · 42 district · 185 state decisions — followed in 32 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedArmour Fertilizer Works v. Parrish Vegetable & Fruit Co.
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Grannis v. Ordean · Windsor v. McVeigh · Reynolds v. Stockton · Louisville Trust Company v. Leonard Comingor
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 475 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o one who protests against the taking of his property without due process of law, it is no answer to say that in his particular case due process of law would have led to the same result[.]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Nor can extra-official or casual notice, or a hearing granted as a matter of favor or discretion, be deemed a substantial substitute for the due process of law that the Constitution requires.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But before a third party’s property may be taken to pay that indebtedness upon the ground that he is a stockholder and indebted to the corporation for an unpaid subscription, he is entitled, upon the most fundamental principles, to a day in court and a hearing upon such questions as whether the judgment is void or voidable for want of jurisdiction or fraud, whether he is a stockholder and indebted, and other defenses personal to himself. Id. at 423 , 35 S.Ct. at 628 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.