Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Muscarello v. United States · United States of America v. Javier Ceballos-Torres · United States v. Head · United States v. Zimmer · Patterson 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he word “use” typically means that a deadly weapon must be “utilized, employed, or applied in order to achieve its intended result ‘the commission of a felony offense or during immediate flight therefrom,’ “ that “use” could mean “any employment of a deadly weapon, even simple possession, if such possession facilitates the associated felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Safian v. State · Johnson v. State“one can 'use' a weapon without exhibiting it, but not vice-versa.”
2 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.