State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Anders v. California · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Michigan v. Long · Douglas v. People of State of California · Evitts v. Lucey
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to appeal in New Hampshire is limited to the right to obtain a discretionary determination by this court as to whether it will accept the appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The supreme court may, in its discretion, decline to accept an appeal from a lower court after a decision on the merits, or may summarily dispose of such an appeal as provided in rule 25.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bundy v. Wilson“The standard governing the making of a declination decision is one of sound judicial discretion with respect to the desirability of our hearing and deciding the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bundy v. Wilson
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.