Coffey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Ex Parte Madding (2002), Taylor v. State (2004)
49 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 Ablon v. State · Eubanks v. State · Rodarte v. State · Aguilar v. State · Mazloum 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the pronouncement of sentence that is the appealable event, and the written sentence or order simply memorializes it and should comport therewith.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that part of the judgment ... that orders that the punishment be carried into execution in the manner prescribed by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ette v. State · Ex Parte Huskins“sentence shall be pronounced in the defendant's presence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ette 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.