Cole v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Robinson v. State (1987), Human v. State (1988)
40 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 Baity v. State · Lyons v. State · Hollins v. State · Wood v. State · Brown v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that it is not necessary to allege prior convictions for the purposes of the enhancement of punishment with the same particularity as must be used in charging the original offense. * * * * * * The trend in the law regarding allegation of prior convictions has generally been toward a relaxation of the rigid rules of the past.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Selvage 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.