Coughlen v. Coots’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 970 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Livingstone v. North Belle Vernon Borough (1996), Cady v. Arenac County (2009)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Town of Newton v. Rumery · Haynesworth v. Miller · Hall v. Ochs · Lynch v. City of Alhambra
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be scrutinized closely in cases where substantial evidence supports [the § 1983 litigant's] allegation of police misconduct, in view of the potential for abuse of release-dismissal agreements by law enforcement officials.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.