Coffin v. Reichard’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.2d 443 · 1944
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973), Procunier v. Martinez (1974)
65 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 28 · 28 U.S.C. § 461
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Logan v. United States · Walker v. Johnston · Ex parte Hull · Waley v. Johnston
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] prisoner retains all the rights of an ordinary citizen except those expressly, or by necessary implication, taken from him by law.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.