Coney v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 94 · 1976
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2012
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on MacHibroda v. United States · Culombe v. Connecticut · Haynes v. Washington · Kercheval v. United States · 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(t)he inward consciousness of having committed (a crime) . . . and of being confronted with evidence of guilt which (the defendant) could not deny nor explain seems enough to account for the confession here'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfrath v. LaVallee
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.