Cothron v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably Ross v. State (1976), Chisley v. State (1953)
61 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 McCleary v. State · State v. Campbell · People v. . Rogers · Brown v. State · 10 Okla. Crim. 553 - Koontz v. State
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, it shows as to the fourth [exception], a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that ... proof [of] one tends to establish the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.