Ex Parte Coulter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably 44 Cal. 3d 480 - People v. Kimble (1988), 534 So. 2d 329 - Hooks v. State (1987)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Zant v. Stephens · Stephens v. Hopper · 438 So. 2d 336 - Coulter 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"1. The defendant was previously convicted of a felony involving violence to the person; "2. The defendant knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons; "3. The capital offense was committed while the defendant was engaged or was an accomplice in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit robbery; "4. The capital felony was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he words 'previously convicted’ ... refer to a time prior to sentence instead of prior to the date of the commission of the capital offense.”). 20 . We have previously explained that [Wjith crimes like this one, that are”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frazier v. Bouchard
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.