Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007 · most notably Coleman v. Balkcom, Warden (1981), Harper v. State (1982)
12 federal appellate · 72 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Rideau v. Louisiana · Dalehite v. United States
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever I’m protecting them, I’m going to do my job and bring them to court, and I hope they’ll get justice. I don’t see where they could put up any plea for mercy____ The acts of these men are lower than animals. If a citizen gets out of hand and starts shooting people up, there’s only one way to arrest and that’s with a shotgun. Any man that believes in God believes in capital punishment____ I could throw the switch to the electric chair and never lose a minute’s sleep.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Coleman v. Kemp“The law in Georgia is well established, and a myriad of cases so hold, that a motion for a change of venue addresses itself to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and that discretion will not be disturbed on appeal unless it can be shown that there was an abuse of this discretion.” Coleman v. State, 237 Ga. 84, 90 ( 226 SE2d 911 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shinholster v. State“If I had my way about it, I’d have me a large oven and I’d precook them for several days, just keep them alive and let them punish____ And I don’t think that would satisfy me.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Coleman v. Kemp
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.