Coons v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mayberry (1974), Application of United Electrical, Radio & M. Workers (1953)
64 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Terry · Wilson · Ex parte Robinson · Burr · State ex inf. Crow v. Shepherd
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statutes do not provide that the grand jury make reports to the court of crimes and misdemeanors of public officials or of other citizens. It is ... required to examine into all felonies and misdemeanors, and to make a true presentment in each of such cases, if, in the opinion of the grand jury . . . such felony or misdemeanor has been committed .... That part of the final report of the grand jury as set forth in the [report] was’ not contemplated in law. If the grand jury, in making investigation of crimes and misdemeanors . . . conclude[s] from the evidence taken that a presentment in the form of an indictment should not be made ... it is not their duty or privilege to make accusations in the form of a report based on such evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fitzgerald“The duties of the grand jury in this state are governed by statute, and it has no rights or privileges based upon the common law.”
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.