State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 691 So. 2d 1273 - State v. Green (1997), State v. Read (1996)
82 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 State v. Ramsay · State v. Norton · People v. Harvey · State v. Lund · State v. Burnham
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he word 'threaten' includes some element of volition. A threat is a communicated intent to inflict harm on person or property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]ntent is rarely proved by direct evidence; it must be inferred from a person's acts and proved by circumstantial evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“fairly and reasonably tend[ed] to show the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt when we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and exclude modifying evidence.”
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.