State v. Coley’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 344 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 360 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. LaMar (2002), State v. Leonard (2004)
7 federal appellate · 344 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Jenks · State v. Dehass · Irvin v. Dowd · Cupp v. Naughten
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 360 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rior calculation and design can be found even when the killer quickly conceived and executed the plan to kill within a few minutes.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prior calculation and design requires something more than instantaneous deliberation. Where evidence adduced at trial reveals the presence of sufficient time and opportunity for the planning of an act of homicide to constitute prior calculation, and the circumstances surrounding the homicide show a scheme designed to implement the calculated decision to kill, a finding by the trier of fact of prior calculation and design is justified.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * required under prior law.' State v. Cotton (1978), 56 Ohio St.2d 8 , 10 O.O.3d 4 , 381 N.E.2d 190 , paragraph one of the syllabus. 'Instantaneous deliberation is not sufficient * * *.' Id. , paragraph two of the syllabus. {¶ 79}”
5 later decisions 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.