Colton v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2018
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Garrett v. BankWest, Inc. · 14 Cal. App. 3d 209 - Gerwin v. Southeastern California Ass'n of Seventh Day Adventists · Lewis v. Mobil Oil Corp. · 111 N.J. Super. 322 - Amer. Container Corp. v. Hanley Trucking Corp. · 46 Ill. App. 3d 136 - McGrady v. Chrysler Motors Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attorney Fees Colton incurred legal fees in South Dakota attempting to clear the title and retrieve the truck from Wyoming. The trial court allowed these fees as damages under SDCL 57A-2-715. As an element of damages, the attorney’s fees were reasonable expenses incident to the impoundment for clouded title. Kelynack v. Yamaha Motor Corp., 152 Mich.App. 105 , 394 N.W.2d 17 (1986); Cady v. Dick Loehr’s, Inc., 100 Mich.App. 543 , 299 N.W.2d 69 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schuldies v. Millar
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.