Hunter v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1957
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 Knowlton v. Walker · McPherson v. Hayward · Kohlheim v. Harrison · Southern Kansas Railway Co. v. Hinsdale
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until there was a renunciation of the trust, or some declaration or act to manifest a claim to hold adversely, there could be no adverse holding. . . . The statute, it is clear, did not begin to run until the notice of the adverse holding or denial of the trust was given.” (pp. 310, 311.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Shoesmith
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.