Coffey v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1943

Citation profile

cited by 43 later decisions

states following

October 1987

most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Blue v. State (1944), Reedy v. State (1945)

43 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 Anderson v. State · Parsons v. State · Boyle v. State · George v. State · Parrish 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

““ ‘The evidence as it relates to the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity falls far short of establishing the fact that appellant’s mind was so affected as to render him unaccountable for his act. While there was some evidence tending to show that appellant was not in all respects in his normal mind at the time of the homicide, no verdict in agreement with the great weight of the evidence could have found anything more to the point than an expression of emotional insanity, for which there is no recognition in the law of this state as an excuse for crime.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Barbour v. State · 536 So. 2d 104 - Harris v. State
““Considerable latitude is allowed by the courts in admitting evidence which has a tendency to throw a light on the mental condition of the defendant at the time of the commission of the crime, provided the proof tends to prove or disprove the issue involved. Every act of the defendant’s life relevant to the issue is admissible in existence when the defense of insanity, general or partial, is set up.” 29 Am. Jur. 2d, §353. “A broad range is allowed . . . subject only to the limitation that the acts inquired about must throw some light on the question of his sanity at the time of the crime.” 1 Modern Trial Practice, ch. 5, p. 124, § 123.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Fulmer v. State
“This appellant was on trial for his life and we are of the opinion that the court below committed reversible error in permitting the state to introduce in evidence the fact that the defendant, at a time far removed from the date of the homicide, assaulted another person, which act could have no possible tendency to prove the sanity of the defendant at the time of the homicide, and which act was in no way admissible under the plea of "not guilty."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 460 So. 2d 228 - Ex Parte Miller

How this case has been treated — in progress

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