48 Cal. 3d 112 - People v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 206 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott (1994)
7 federal appellate · 193 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Eddings v. Oklahoma · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Murphy v. Florida
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 206 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We recognized the propriety of introducing evidence on rape trauma syndrome under some circumstances to “provid[e] the jury with recent findings of professional research on the subject of a victim’s reaction to sexual assault” (citation omitted), but such evidence is “limited to discussions of victims as a class, supported be references to literature and experience (such as an expert normally relies upon) and does not extend to discussion and diagnosis of the witness in the case at hand (citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bachman“' "Whether a course of criminal conduct is divisible and therefore gives rise to more than one act within the meaning of section 654 depends on the intent and objective of the actor. If all of the offenses were incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Carter“also an unreasonably expansive reading of the special circumstance of avoiding arrest, a reading which would cause that circumstance to overlap extensively with felony murder. We believe the special circumstance of avoiding arrest should be limited to cases in which the arrest is imminent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.