Coy v. Iowa’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
310 federal appellate · 17 district · 1,192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,833 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993)
310 federal appellate · 17 district · 1,192 state decisions — followed in 50 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 Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi
Cited together with Maryland v. Craig · Ohio v. Roberts · California v. Green · Pointer v. Texas · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 1,833 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may feel quite differently when he has to repeat his story looking at the man whom he will harm greatly by distorting or mistaking the facts. He can now understand what sort of human being that man is.”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“they would surely be allowed only when necessary to further an important public policy.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Confrontation Clause guarantees the defendant a face-to-face meeting with witnesses appearing before the trier of fact.”
34 later decisions 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.