Coughlin v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1973
11 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 Denman v. Steinbach · Cunningham v. Lakin · Peterson v. Barry · Sponable v. Woodhouse · Sellers v. Pacific Wrecking & Salvage Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, we are of the opinion that the judgment may be sustained upon the ground that the sale of the land by the county treasurer to himself or a deputy in his office is against public policy, and therefore invalid. Sponable v. Woodhouse, 48 Kan. 173 , 29 Pac. 394 .””
3 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.