Pratte v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1984
11 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 Dana v. Tucker
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * when the court shall have reason to believe from evidence derived from other sources than the affidavit of the jurors, that there has been such misconduct on their part as to influence their verdict, we see no good reason why the affidavit of a juror might not be received for the purpose of explaining or enlarging such evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that cases may arise, particularly when life and liberty are at stake, which may call for a departure from the rule.”
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.