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Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State v. Lane (2020), Anthony v. State (2016)

34 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Franks v. Delaware · Giglio 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he correct inquiry to determine whether a trial court’s instruction on the State’s burden of proof allowed a finding of guilt based on a degree of proof below that required by the due process clause is whether there is a “reasonable likelihood” that the jury applied the instruction in a constitutionally impermissible manner. [Cit.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Anderson v. State
  2. “[w]hen a legal issue involves such well-established principles as the definition of reasonable doubt, there are few, if any, circumstances which would justify a trial court’s failure to use the suggested pattern criminal charges compiled by the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Anderson v. State
  3. “continued use of the disapproved charge in disregard of this opinion may result in the reversal of future convictions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mangum 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.