Crawford v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2000
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 2nd District (Fort Worth))
Relationships
Relies on 38 Cal. 2d 643 - Beck v. West Coast Life Insurance · Greer v. Franklin Life Insurance · Camden Fire Insurance v. Harold E. Clayton & Co. · Carter v. Carter · Scanlan v. Home Ins. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he rule of public policy should be applied so as to exclude from benefit the criminal and all claiming under her, but not so as to exclude alternative or independent rights.... In a word, it appears to me that the crime of one person may prevent that person from the assertion of what would otherwise be a right, and may accelerate or beneficially affect the rights of third persons, but can never prejudice or injuriously affect those rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Diep v. Rivas
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.