65 N.C. App. 751 - State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2018
10 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 United States v. Mendenhall · Beck v. State of Ohio · Chambers v. Maroney · Romano v. United States · Williams v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Basic to the letter and spirit of the Fair Sentencing Act is that circumstances that are inherent in the crime convicted of may not be used as aggravating factors in order to increase the punishment beyond what the Legislature has set for the offense involved. ... If these sentences could be enlarged because of the same facts that caused them to be established in the first place, the Legislature’s judgment in the matter would be of no effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kimbrell“the defendants' rights 'are governed by the law, rather than by the officers' misunderstanding of it'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nicholson
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.