State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably State v. Amaya-Ruiz (1990), State v. Gretzler (1980)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks v. Florida East Coast Railway Co. · Cheng Fu Sheng v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · State v. Schantz · State v. Blazak · Kane v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think, however, the record shows quite clearly that defendant’s unwillingness to cooperate with his attorney was calculated to undermine his prosecution____ Similarly we cannot agree such conduct on the part of the defendant indicates he could not cooperate with counsel as opposed to his refusal to cooperate. The testimony of the medical experts overwhelmingly indicates defendant’s lack of cooperation was entirely volitional and not the result of a mental defect which affected his competency. “The voluntary actions of the defendant do not provide an excuse in law for his ... irrational conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Amaya-Ruiz““The defense of insanity is not available to the defendant who has a temporary episode of mental incapacity so as to be unable to know right from wrong or to not know the nature and quality of his acts caused by his voluntary use of alcohol and/or drugs. Additionally, the defense of insanity is not available to a defendant who has a temporary episode of mental incapacity so as to be unable to know right from wrong or to not know the nature and consequences of his acts caused by the voluntary use of alcohol and/or drugs combined with a pre-exist-ing mental condition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Curry““There is a presumption of sanity in every criminal case. To rebut that presumption and cause sanity to become an issue in the case, the defendant 'must introduce sufficient evidence to generate a doubt as to his sanity. State v. Begay, 110 Ariz. 200 , 516 P.2d 573 (1973). If the evidence generates a reasonable doubt as to sanity, the burden falls upon the state to prove sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Parker
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.