Cofield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably Barnes v. State (1998), Castell v. State (1983)
5 federal appellate · 54 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Washington v. Texas
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the death penalty if he or she is committed to automatically vote against the death penalty after having”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Fourth Amendment . . . provides that `. . . no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation . . .' The decisions require that `before a warrant for either arrest or search can issue . .. the judicial officer issuing such a warrant [must] be supplied with sufficient information to support an independent judgment that probable cause exists for the warrant.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devier v. State“[t]he better practice clearly would be for the affidavit to show probable cause . . ., the Fourth Amendment does not by its terms require that probable cause be shown by the affidavit, but that `the judicial officer . . . be supplied' with sufficient information to support his independent judgment that probable cause exists for the warrant. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devier v. State
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.