Coburn v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Pridgen v. Boston Housing Authority (1974), City of Yuma v. Evans (1959)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Wallace v. Ludwig · Bendett v. Bendett · Semerjian v. Stetson · Lydon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Isaacson v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enough to show a causal relation between the negligence of the defendant and the death of the intestate”
1 later decision 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.