Coffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably King v. State (1997), Jones v. State (1996)
76 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Barber v. Page · Geesa 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Definition of Unavailability. “Unavailability as a witness” includes situations in which the declarant: ⅝ ⅜ ⅝ ⅝ ⅜ ⅜ (2) persists in refusing to testify concerning the subject matter of his statement despite an order of the court to do so; or (3) testifies to a lack of memory of the subject matter of his statement.... [[Image here]] (b) Hearsay Exceptions. The following are not excluded if the declarant is unavailable as a witness: (1) Former Testimony. Testimony given as a witness at another hearing of the same or a different proceeding, if the party against whom the testimony is now offered, had an opportunity and similar motive to develop the testimony by direct, cross, or redirect examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ward 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.