Pierre Felix Coiron and Marie Coiron Minor by Her Next Friend Pierre Felix Coiron v. Laurent Millaudon Edward Shiff Syndics of Alexander Lesseps et al.’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 113 · 1856
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1940 · most notably Heckman v. United States (1912), State of New Hampshire v. State of Louisiana State of New York (1883)
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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 William Shields v. Robert R Barrow
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A court of equity, in setting aside a deed of a purchaser upon grounds other than positive fraud on his part, sets it aside upon terms, and requires a return of the purchase money, or that the conveyance stand as a security for its payment. Boyd v. Dunlap, 1 Johns. Ch. 478 ; Sands v. Codwise, 4 Johns. 536 , 598, 599. This constitutes the essential difference between relief in equity and that afforded in a court of law. A court of law can hold no middle course. The entire claim of each party must rest and be determined at law, on the single point of the validity of the deed; but it is the ordinary case in the former court that a deed not absolutely void, yet, under the circumstances, inequitable as between the parties, may be set aside upon terms.””
1 later decision 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.