Coit v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
86 U.S. 274 · 1873
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1900
7 federal appellate · 2 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Awl any supposed creditor whoso claim is wholly or In pari rejected, or an recignee who is dissatisfied with the allowance of a claim, may appeal from iho decision of the diniriet court to the circuit court for the samo district.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buff v. Carrier
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.