Coates v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Reinbold v. State (1990), Marcum v. State (2000)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Florida v. Royer · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Griffin v. California · United States v. Sharpe
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not follow, of course, that the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment prevents a trial judge from imposing any limits on defense counsel’s inquiry into the potential bias of a prosecution witness. On the contrary, trial judges retain wide latitude insofar as the Confrontation Clause is concerned to impose reasonable limits on such cross-examination based on concerns about, among other things, harassment, prejudice, confusion of the issues, the witness’ safety, or interrogation that is repetitive or only marginally relevant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McQuay v. State · Thornton v. State“A vehicle fitting the description of one used by the crime suspect provides reasonable suspicion for making an investigatory stop.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Zavesky v. State · Adams v. State“[PJrobable cause is not needed for an investigatory stop. A police officer may stop a person upon a reasonable suspicion grounded in specific facts that further investigation is necessary. [Cita tions omitted.] A vehicle fitting the description of one used by the crime suspect provides reasonable suspicion for making an investigatory stop. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. State
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.