Coffman v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2002
14 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 Nichols v. Nichols · Bradford v. Futrell · Fearon v. Fearon · Sampognaro v. Sampognaro · 50 Wash. 2d 577 - Koon v. Koon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a “ compulsion of circumstances ” coupled with express or implied consent on the part of the mother to a mode of payment other than that prescribed in a decree may serve as a basis for giving credit to the father for the period of time that he actually cared for the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a contract between the parties and subject to the same general rules governing other contracts ...”
1 later decision 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.