Coleman v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983)
30 federal appellate · 3 district · 50 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 Strauder v. West Virginia · Hernandez v. Texas · Reece v. State of Georgia · Eubanks v. State of Louisiana · Seth Carter v. State of Texas
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Here petitioner's counsel failed to raise the issue before trial; but the Alabama Supreme Court, apparently acting under the enlightened procedure of its automatic appeals statute [T. 15, § 382(10)], did not base its affirmance on this ground but considered the claim on the merits.. . . Exercising its discretion to permit petitioner to attack the exclusion by motion for a new trial, the Supreme Court of Alabama decided petitioner's constitutional claim on the merits."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams 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.