418 So. 2d 238 - Coler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2012
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Rodriguez v. New York · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · American States Insurance v. Piasecki · Alford v. Florida · C. D. W. v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State of mind is not a material fact in a sexual battery charge, nor is intent an issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padgett v. State · Jackson v. State“(2) OTHER CRIMES, WRONGS, OR ACTS. (a) Similar fact evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is admissible when relevant to prove a material fact in issue, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, but it is inadmissible when the evidence is relevant solely to prove bad character or propensity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n addition to the testimony of the children concerning the four specific incidents of sexual battery ... introduced testimony from the children, over objection, of other examples of Coler's deviant sexual behavior. They testified that Coler had the children watch from the doorway as he fondled a woman, that he told them that they or the neighborhood children could use his bed for sexual intercourse, that he told one of his sons to have sex with three women he brought home, and that on a visit to Michigan he made the children eat a cucumber which, just prior thereto, he had inserted into the daughter's rectum.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padgett 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.