State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992 · most notably Ashe v. Swenson (1970), Brown v. Ohio (1977)
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 73 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Commonwealth v. Cunningham
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Here is no defect in the first indictment. It is a case where the state has thought proper to prosecute the offence in its mildest form, and it is better that the residue of the offence go unpunished, than by sustaining a second indictment to sanction a practice which might be rendered an instrument of oppression to the citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the whole offense, in the eye of reason and philosophy is one ..., we ought not to presume that the legislature meant to punish it as two.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Valentine
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.