Coffman v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Walley v. HUNT (1951), Barquin v. Hall Oil Co. (1921)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Lunsford v. Dietrich · Hill v. Ward · Ivey v. Pioneer Savings & Loan Co. · Moore v. Rolin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he damages so claimed ... are such as are alleged to have resulted from a disparagement by defendant of plaintiff's title to certain real estate ...; and the action falls, of course, within the class denominated in the law as `slander of title' ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whatever be the statement, however, in order for it to form the basis of a right of action it must have been made, not only falsely, but maliciously. These elements are the very gist of the action, without both of which it does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may consist of an assertion either that the plaintiff has no title to the property of which he is the ostensible owner, or that his title is defective, or that, as here, the defendant has himself an interest in or lien upon the property.”
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.