State v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Roth v. Weston (2002), State v. Santiago (1998)
2 federal appellate · 73 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Pearce · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such information may come to the judge's attention from evidence adduced at the ... trial itself, from a ... presentence investigation ... or possibly from other sources.... Thus, evidence adduced at trial detailing the nature and extent of the offenses charged, as well as the defendant's conduct during the trial ... are among the considerations that the sentencing court may take into account....”
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.