People v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 165 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 953 - People v. Tewksbury (1976), Egan v. United States (1923)
3 federal appellate · 156 state decisions — followed in 19 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
Relies on Stone v. State · People v. Clough · State v. Durnam · Butt v. State · People v. Collum
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 165 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ When the question of an accomplice arises in the trial of a case, the general and accepted rule is for the court to instruct the jury touching the law of accomplices, and leave the question whether or not the witness be an accomplice for the decision of the jury as a matter of fact. (People v. Kraker, 72 Cal. 459 ,1 Am. St. 65, 14 Pac. 196 .) ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of an accomplice, coming from a tainted source, the witness being, first, an infamous man, from his own confession of guilt, and, second, a man usually testifying in the hope of favor or the expectation of immunity, was not entitled to the same consideration as the evidence of a clean man”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Dail · People v. Clapp“Wherever the law has denounced as a separate crime the particular act of participation by an accessory or accomplice, the sole logical and legal effect is not to destroy the relationship of accomplice, but merely to effect a modification of section 31. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Clapp
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.