Coker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Bryant v. State · Cantrell v. State · Burns v. State · Bradberry v. State · McLemore v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an officer or anyone else should testify that a confession was freely and voluntarily made, and then testify that the defendant was given a severe beating [or subjected to mental torture], but when the assault was over he freely and voluntarily confessed, no court, in our opinion, would have any trouble in reaching the conclusion that a confession thus obtained was inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lynch
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.