Colerick v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 1954 · most notably Tewksbury v. Howard (1894), Howard v. Adkins (1906)
28 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 Pegg 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ I have this day sold my lot to Alexis Coquillard, on the plat in the town of South Bend, bn the plat of said town on the river bank. I have received value and will make the deed as soon as convenient. August 11th, 1835. D. H. Colerick.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. Witter · Torr v. Torr
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.