15 Ala. App. 331 - Coplon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Yelton v. State (1974), 32 Ala. App. 644 - Gettings v. State (1947)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 McGehee v. State · White v. State · Wilson v. State · Phillips v. State · Cooney v. Pullman Palace Car Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The question addressed to the witness . . . ‘You are indicted about this, aren’t you?’ and, ‘Aren’t you indicted for the same thing, under charge for this same offense?’ are matters about which the witness could answer, if he knew, as a concrete fact, and are -questions that were therefore not improper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`What would that [stolen] suit be worth if owned by one person, worn by another, and you wanted to buy it?'”
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.