Coney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Young (1976), McCrary v. State (1975)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Jackson v. Denno · Kent v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Haynes v. Washington · Haley v. Ohio
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the directive in the Juvenile Code that the juvenile court may, in its discretion, authorize a “child” of the age of fourteen years or older to be prosecuted under the general law, when after hearing it is found that such action shall be conducive “to the child’s welfare and the best interest of the state,” affords adequate and sufficient standards to guide the court in carrying out the legislative directive and intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. State“. . . the petition may be dismissed and such child or minor may be prosecuted under the general law, whenever the judge. . . finds that such child or minor is not a proper subject to be dealt with under the provisions of this chapter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not specify any particular form or require detailed findings of fact”
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.