Gagnon v. Coombs’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Crosby v. Luehrs (2003), Balderos v. City Chevrolet (2000)
3 federal appellate · 8 district · 13 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 Meehan v. SHAUGHNESSY COHEN · Blank v. Chelmsford Ob/Gyn, P.C. · Robertson v. Chapman · American Circular Loom Co. v. Wilson · Hall v. Paine
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to acts undertaken in good faith reliance thereon, an affidavit executed by the attorney in fact under a power of attorney ... stating that he did not have at the time of exercise of the power actual knowledge of the termination of the power by revocation ... is conclusive proof of the nonrevocation ... of the power at that time.”). Courts have emphasized that the”
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.