71 Cal. App. 381 - Coulter v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1974
8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not need the decisions cited by appellant to convince us that ordinarily a trust deed is ‘a thing of value.’ But no authority has been produced holding that under such a statute as the one here considered, the note given for a loan, or any instrument of security therefor, is ‘a thing of value’ paid or delivered, within the terms and intention of the statute providing for such damages.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horlbeck v. Walther
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.