Coston v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Talley v. State (1948), In Interest of DJS (1990)
36 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 Boyd v. United States · Nickels v. State · Suarez v. State of Florida · Roberson v. State · Pinder v. State
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law, as well as reason, prevents (defendant) from taking advantage of his own wrong doing, or excusing himself when this unlawful act, if committed by (defendant), strikes down an unintended victim. The original malice as a matter of law is transferred from the one against whom it was entertained to the person who actually suffered the consequences of the unlawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an intent exists to do wrong, and an unintended illegal act ensues as a natural and probable consequence, the unintended wrong derives its character from the general evil intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Interest of DJS
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.