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← 360 N.C. 493 - Coley v. State

Coley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 26 U.S.C. § 441 · 26 U.S.C. § 63

Relies on United States v. Consolidated Edison Co. of NY · State Ex Rel. Martin v. Preston · Stephenson v. Bartlett · Perry v. Stancil · Baker v. Martin

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

  1. “fail[s] to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “`[t]he best way to ascertain the meaning of a word or sentence in the Constitution is to read it contextually and to compare it with other words and sentences with which it stands connected.'”
    1 later decision 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.