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← 345 Mass. 126 - Coyle v. Swanson

Coyle v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
October 1998
most recently cited

2 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1998

2 district · 14 state decisions

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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 Nash v. Lang · Squires v. Fraska · Doherty v. Ernst · Crompton v. Williams · Hurnanen v. Nicksa

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is not confined to the person who has the absolute right to a chattel, but also applies to a person who has the possession and control of it.”
    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.