Coats v. . Donnell’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1967 · most notably Benedict v. Ratner (1925), Benedict v. Ratner (1925)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 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 Curtis and Others v. . Leavitt · Hale v. . Omaha National Bank · Wisner v. . Ocumpaugh · Wilkes & Fontaine v. Ferris · Catlin v. Eagle Bank of New-Haven
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That a contract for a lien on property not in esse may be effectual in equity to give a lien as between the parties when the property comes into existence, and where there are no intervening rights of creditors or third persons, seems to be established by several decisions in this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mathews v. Hardt
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.