Coker v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1959
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The complaint seems insufficient to sustain that part of the judgment granting the injunction. It is simply alleged, in substance, that defendants, between certain specified dates, diverted the waters of the stream, to the plaintiff’s damage in a sum stated. There is no allegation that the injury was continuing, or threatened to be continued, or likely to be continued. The circumstances stated are sufficient for a recovery of damages, but no equitable facts are alleged to sustain the injunction. The writ of injunction, though remedial, must be based upon equitable circumstances. From all that appears in the complaint, the injury was only temporary, and not likely to continue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ball v. Kehl
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.