People v. Coefield’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland (1969), People v. Washington (1965)
134 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 28 Cal. 2d 306 - People v. Peete · 28 Cal. 2d 121 - People v. Valentine · People v. Albertson · 37 Cal. 2d 656 - People v. Chavez · 32 Cal. 2d 491 - People v. Dabb
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the evidence was relevant on the question of common scheme and intent to rob, it was admissible whether the other offenses were prior or subsequent. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]uch a killing is murder of the first degree by force of section 189 of the Penal Code, regardless of whether it was intentional or accidental.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“killing ... committed in connection with conduct intended to facilitate escape after the robbery and as part of one continuous transaction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.