Kiser v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (1988), Ross v. Farmers Insurance Group of Companies (1998)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 102 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 Kilbreath v. Rudy · French v. Dwiggins
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`clear indication of retroactive application, then the statute may only apply to cases which arise subsequent to its enactment.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general assembly shall have no power to pass retroactive laws, or laws impairing the obligation of contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] statute is presumed to be prospective in its operation unless expressly made retrospective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roberts
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.