State v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Shay v. Rossi (2000), Ecker v. Town of West Hartford (1987)
3 federal appellate · 64 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 Cobbledick v. United States · State v. Curcio · State v. Ellis · State v. Parker · State v. Littlejohn
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As an affirmative defense, the statute of limitations provides the defendant with a shield, not against prosecution itself, but against successful prosecution.... [T]he rights afforded the defendant, via the remedy of the statute of limitations, were not concluded by the denial of her motion. Those rights, if they exist in this case, are still intact and may be enforced on trial or on appeal from a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[u]pon the trial of all matters of fact in any cause or action in the superior court, whether to the court or jury . . . if either party is aggrieved by the decision . . . he may appeal to the court having jurisdiction from the final judgment of the court or such judge . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“confers ... a statutory right not to be prosecuted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swebilius
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.