Coates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Betts v. Brady (1942), Bernard v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction (1946)
3 federal appellate · 54 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mooney v. Holohan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sentence of ninety years may well be considered as a sentence for life and the proceedings in these cases seem too superficial and hurried to serve as foundation for life imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. State“[t]he prisoner did all that his ignorance and lack of advice permitted in forwarding his appeal in time, and the nature of his objection requires that it be accepted as of that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hackney v. State“he gave the letter to the warden of the penitentiary, as disciplinary rules require, for mailing, within the time fixed by the rule of court for appeals,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hackney v. State
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.