People v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2020
11 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 People v. Lowe · Kogan v. People · People v. Bartowsheski · People v. Gonzales · People v. Vigil
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant pinned the victim's head down as he sexually assaulted her, forcefully pushed her head down on his genitals, hit her in the mouth, and was very physical both in his actions generally and in his handling of the victim during the three sexual assaults”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bryant“only in truly exceptional cireumstances will an appellate court substitute its judgment for the judgment of the trial court as to the appropriate sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hoover
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.