People v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably 81 Ill. 2d 571 - People v. Rogers (1980), State v. DelVecchio (1962)
8 federal appellate · 16 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 Mapp v. Ohio · People v. Singer · People v. Spinello · People v. Winship · People v. Durling
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contrived after defendant was arrested. To meet this claim the prosecution exercised its right to show by independent evidence that long before this alleged fabrication the witness Nilsson had taken a consistent position. This the prosecution did by proving that before he picked out defendant in a police line-up Nilsson had so described the thief to the police expert that the latter was able to make a sketch or drawing which closely resembled the actual appearance of defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a sketch drawn by the police artist from details given by [the victim],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the well-established exception to the hearsay rule that”
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.