Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Batson v. Shiflett (1992), Mayor of Baltimore v. Chase (2000)
4 district · 127 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 Pereira v. United States · Wolfle v. United States · Blau v. United States · Musser v. Utah · State v. Fabritz
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is elementary that a statute should be construed according to the ordinary and natural import of the language used unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by its context, without resorting to subtle or forced interpretations for the purpose of extending or limiting its operation. State v. Fabritz, 276 Md. 416 , 348 A.2d 275 (1975) [ cert. denied, 425 U.S. 942 (1976)]; Slate v. Zitomer, 275 Md. 534 , 341 A.2d 789 (1975) [ cert. denied sub nom. Gasperich v. Church, 423 U.S. 1076 (1976)]. In other words, a court may not as a general rule surmise a legislative intention contrary to the plain language of a statute or insert exceptions not made by the legislature. St. Paul Fire & Mar. v. Ins. Comm'r, 275 Md. 130 , 339 A.2d 291 (1975); Amalgamated Ins. v. Helms, 239 Md. 529 , 212 A.2d 311 (1965)."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) that the communications originate in confidence, (2) the confidence is essential to the relation, (3) the relation is a proper object of encouragement by the law, and (4) the injury that would inure to it by the disclosure is probably greater than the benefit that would result in the judicial investigation of truth.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mazzone v. State · State v. Mazzone“One spouse is not competent to disclose any confidential communication between the spouses occurring during their marriage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.