State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Culombe v. Connecticut (1961), State v. Lucas (1959)
85 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 Watts v. Indiana · Turner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · Harris v. State of South Carolina · State v. Hauptmann · Carlo v. the Okonite-Callender Cable Co.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a statement or confession is, in fact voluntary, depends on the facts of the individual case and the determination of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal where the evidence is adequate to sustain it. State v. Cole, supra ; State v. Pierce, supra [ 4 N.J. 252 ].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Grillo · State v. Tune“[t]he distinction between principal and accomplice or aider and abettor has been abolished in our jurisdiction for purposes of indictment and punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““were subjected to physical discomfort, mistreatment or inconvenience or deprived of clothing, food or rest, conditions that were alleged and proved in Watts v. Indiana, 338 U. S. 49 , 69 S. Ct. 1347 , 93 L. Ed. 1801 (1949); Turner v. Com. of Pennsylvania, 338 U. S. 62 , 69 S. Ct. 1352 , 93 L. Ed. 1810 (1949); and Harris v. South Carolina, 338 U. S. 68 , 69 S. Ct. 1354 , 93 L. Ed. 1815 (1949), cited in their brief, and in the other cases collected and discussed in State v. Pierce, supra.” 10 N. J., at p. 551”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fauntleroy
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.