State v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably State v. Olson (1982), State v. Riley (1958)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 State v. King · State v. Hamilton · State v. Crowley · State Ex Rel. Shartel v. Trimble · State v. Miller
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the law that penetration, however slight, is sufficient to constitute the crime of rape. State v. Hamilton, 304 Mo. 19 , 263 S.W. 127 , loc. cit. 129(2); People v. Esposti, 82 Cal.App.2d 76 , 185 P.2d 866 ; State v. Dill, 3 Terry, Del., 533, 40 A.2d 443 ; Addison v. State, 198 Ga. 249 , 31 S.E.2d 393 , loc. cit. 394(1, 2) ; Fox v. Commonwealth, 299 Ky. 293 , 185 S.W.2d 394 , loc. cit. 399(9, 10). In the Addison case the Supreme Court of Georgia stated the rule as follows: ‘Proof that the vagina was entered is not essential to a conviction of rape, but proof that the vulva was entered is sufficient to show penetration, although the vagina be intact and not penetrated in the least.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhoades 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.