Coburn v. Coxeter’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1970
16 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. Rainsford · Newsom v. Pryor's Lessee · Wells v. Jackson Iron Manufacturing Co. · Howe v. Bass · Pernam v. Wead
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here the land itself, in the broadest terms, is granted and the restriction upon the use is entirely consistent with the passing of the fee. It is true that the land was to be used for a road and for no other purpose whatever; but at the same time it is inconceivable that the land should have been granted in explicit terms when only an easement was intended.””
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.