Coleman v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1945
6 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 Johnston v. Standard Mining Co. · Willard v. Wood · St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co. v. Eckel · Taylor v. Whitney
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In other words, the mere institution of a suit does not, of itself, absolve a plaintiff from the charge of laches. This doctrine does not depend upon the statute of limitations, but, in a great measure, upon the peculiar circumstances surrounding such case.””
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.