Coombs v. Hibberd.’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Drinkhouse v. Van Ness (1927), Phillips v. Trusheim (1945)
36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Morris v. De Celis
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.
““ There must be some point where litigation in the lower court terminates, and the losing party is turned over to the appellate court for redress.””
4 later decisions 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.