Coe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably Whitsey v. State (1990), Moody v. State (1992)
69 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error in the admission of improper testimony is usually cured by the trial court’s instruction to the jury to disregard, “except in extreme cases where it appears that the question or evidence is clearly calculated to inflame the minds of the jury and is of such character as to suggest the impossibility of withdrawing the impression produced on their minds.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gowin v. State · Sanchez v. State“The general rule in all English speaking jurisdictions is that an accused is entitled to be tried on the accusation made in the State's pleading and not on some collateral crime, or for being a criminal generally. The rule is now deemed axiomatic and is followed in all jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadden v. State“A No sir, they were the other complaining witnesses in the other robberies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hadden 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.