Coon v. Rigden’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1975
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 Davis v. Shields · Wilson v. Loomis · Dean v. Bailey · Patton v. Gates · Gauche v. Mayer
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.
““ Should the wife permit the husband to deal with and sell her separate property as his own, or obtain credit upon it as his own, undoubtedly this would be a fraud against which courts would extend their protection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. De Votie v. McGerr“[N]o man shall set up his own fraud as the basis of a right or claim for his own benefit . . .,”
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.