Cahoon v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1976
18 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 People v. San Francisco Sav. Union · Wells v. Jackson Iron Manufacturing Co. · Braly v. Seaman · Wells v. Burbank · Lawrence v. Fast
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the whole question what *Page 578 constitutes a public place for the purpose of notice were a new one, there might be good reason to give it a more careful examination than it has yet received in this state, and to consider whether the true construction of the statute is not that notice should be posted in the town, inhabited or uninhabited, travelled or untravelled; whether the notice should not be posted in one of the most public places, in a place as public as any, or in a place where it would be as likely to be seen as in any; whether the word "public,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe“But the general question is not an open one (Wells v. Company, 47 N.H. 235 , 255 ); and the manner in which the settled construction was applied at the trial of this case the defendant cannot complain of. If the construction given to the statute from 1825 (Tidd v. Smith, 3 N.H. 178 ) to the present time is erroneous, the introduction of the true construction, and the retrospective application of it, might now unsettle titles and disturb vested rights that have grown out of the established construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe“was not to prevent an intentional or negligent concealment of the notice, by posting it at a place not public as compared with other places in the town; whether the word means anything more than a place relatively and comparatively public, and, at all events, not essentially and peculiarly less public than other places in the same town, if there is no place of common resort. Very strong reasons might be given for such a construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe
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.