State v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 184 state decisions

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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “personal rights which, like some other constitutional rights, may not be vicariously asserted.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Campbell · State v. Renner, Unpublished Decision (12-8-2003)

2. “a felony defendant in Ohio must be tried within ninety days if incarcerated on the pending charge or within two hundred seventy days if on bail.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Anderson, Unpublished Decision (9-27-2007) · State v. Reed, Unpublished Decision (6-17-2004)

3. “On July 7, 1984, [Petitioner] and Debra D. Brown approached the home of the Reverend and Mrs. Millard Gay of Dayton, Ohio. After conversing with Mr. Gay, they stayed at the Gays’ home from July 7 through July 9, 1984. [Petitioner] and Brown accompanied the Gays to religious services in Lockwood, Ohio, on July 9, 1984. The next day, the Gays drove appellant and Brown to downtown Cincinnati and dropped them off. On July 11, 1984 at approximately 10:00 a.m., Tonnie Storey, age fifteen, left her home in Cincinnati wearing rusty brown cutoff shorts, a beige sleeveless blouse with yellow rings, blue tassel shoes and a Michael Jackson button. She was next seen at Bloom Junior High School at approximately 11:45 a.m. by a teacher. Later that same day, between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m., a classmate saw Tonnie on the corner of May and Morgan Streets in Cincinnati in the company of a man and a woman. The classmate identified the man as [Petitioner], When Tonnie had not returned home by 4:30 p.m. that day, her mother called the police and reported her missing. On July 19, 1984, a body was discovered in an abandoned building on May Street by a real estate agent. A Michael Jackson button and a pair of brown shorts with keys in the pocket were discovered in the area where the body was found. The keys identified by decedent’s father belonged to the Storey residence. The body was badly decomposed and identification was made through fingerprints. The body was identified as that of Ton-nie Storey. The ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coleman v. Mitchell