Coad v. Coad’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 1954
19 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In moving to set aside the findings of fact and the conclusions of law [as was done herein], the defendant obviously assumes that the court has jurisdiction to correct errors and irregularities in the rendition of the judgment. This is plain. Having submitted to the jurisdiction to obtain that relief, it amounted to a waiver of all defects in the service of process.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to set aside the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and the judgment rendered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the pleadings, papers on file, and records in said action.”
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.