State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
January 2013
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Salazar · Santillanes v. State · State v. Gallegos · State v. Duarte · State v. Ungarten
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When two or more persons undertake overt action to harm another, the victim may use an appropriate amount of force to defend himself against either aggressor, or both of them. If supported by the evidence, the defendant is entitled to a self-defense instruction in which the jury considers threatened harm from all assailants, not just the one against whom the defendant may have retaliated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sandoval
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.