People v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 1991 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 685 - Methodist Hosp. of Sacramento v. Saylor (1971), Lux v. Haggin (1886)
2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Brown v. Maryland · Sharon v. Sharon · Asher Nathan v. The State of Louisiana · Taylor v. Palmer · People v. McCreery
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Constitution of this State is not to be considered as a grant of power, but rather as a restriction upon the powers of the Legislature; and ... it is competent for the Legislature to exercise all powers not forbidden....”
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.