Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 88 state decisions

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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . The authorities are to the effect that inquiry into transactions so ancient should not be permitted by the trial judge for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of a witness, since it is to the interest of society that men reform, and live down their past, if an evil one, and the witness stand should not be made a place of torture, for probing into occurrences long forgotten, and perhaps forgiven before forgotten, and for dragging them forth anew, to the distress of the person who is subjected to the ordeal, and to the injury of the public morals.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jenkins v. State

2. ““ ‘We apprehend that whatever was then and there said and done, immediately before or after the transaction, which is inseparably identified with and calculated to explain it, may be properly classified as part of the res gestae. The declaration in such a case is a verbal act, and does not stand for accusation, but stands for a fact.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 3 Tenn. Crim. App. 310 - Shelton v. State

3. “soda and vinegar to dwell placidly in the same bottle.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jennings v. Case