Coffman v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2005
21 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wright v. Hicks · Wilkins v. Allen · Wootton v. Redd's ex'or · Hatcher v. Hatcher · Carr v. Effinger
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true the devise or bequest need not be in express terms, and that it may be by necessary implication; but to justify such an implication, the intention of the testator must be so apparent that an intention to the contrary cannot be supposed, for otherwise the implication is not a necessary one .... [Emphasis added.] At 461.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by judicial construction make a will for the decedent that he has not made for himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.