Coyle v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1969
15 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 Palmer v. . Horn · Drake v. . Drake · King v. Savage
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In England it is a settled rule of construction that the word `issue,' when used in connection with the word `parent,' in the manner it is used in the will now under examination, will be understood as meaning children and excluding grandchildren.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Fisler“But if any of my said children shall have died, leaving lawful issue, such issue shall take the share their parent would have taken if living,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.