Coleman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Dorman v. State (1981), Mallott v. State (1980)
1 district · 128 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Doyle v. Ohio · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable suspicion that imminent public danger exists or [that] serious harm to persons or property has recently occurred”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ebona v. State · Pierce v. State“[recent] serious harm to persons or property”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. GB · Brown v. State“warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Ebona 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.