Coffman v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 144 - Coulter v. Superior Court (1978), Saunders v. Superior Court (1994)
24 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 5 Cal. 3d 153 - Vesely v. Sager · Rappaport v. Nichols · Nolan v. Morelli · Niukkanen v. McAlexander · Adamian v. Three Sons, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“furnished ... to an obviously intoxicated person with knowledge that the intoxicated person was going to be driving a vehicle on the public highways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.