Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 113 state decisions

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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he chain of custody rule applies with diminishing strictness as the exhibits concerned become decreasingly susceptible to alteration, tampering or substitution.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 Ind. App. 639 - Greenlee v. State · Dier v. State

2. ““It is of no consequence, under the circumstances, that the trip to Louisville was made at Mr. Robinson’s [the hostage] suggestion. He and his family were being held and threatened at gunpoint. He volunteered to do what he did only out.of fear of great harm to himself and family. Under these circumstances, his actions cannot be said to have been voluntary but clearly were coerced. The reasonable fear of the use of force or violence, when combined with asportation, is sufficient to sustain a charge of kidnapping.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kocher v. State

3. ““[W]hen the facts necessary to convict on a second prosecution would not necessarily have convicted on the first, . then the first prosecution will not be a bar to the second, although the offenses were both committed at the same time and by the same act.” Coleman v. State, (1975) 264 Ind. 64, 71 , 339 N.E.2d 51, 56 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pallett v. State