Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2001
22 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 Anderson v. State · Turner v. State · Forsha v. State · Nichols v. State · Lewis 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that ‘if a man kills another person, upon sudden heat produced by adequate provocation it is voluntary manslaughter’. There must be sudden heat from such provocation to negative malice. Young v. State, 30 Tenn. 200 and other cases. “Again in Haile v. State, 31 Tenn. 248 , and supported by the cases of Manier v. State, 65 Tenn. 595 , and Seals v. State, 62 Tenn. 459 , the Court said: — ‘If, upon a sudden quarrel, two persons fight, and one kills the other, this is voluntary manslaughter’. “It is said in 40 C.J.S. Homicide § 48, Subsection (b), page 912, that ‘homicide resulting from mutual combat or the excitement and heat of passion arising therefrom is voluntary manslaughter. There must be a mutual intention to fight, and, it has been held, deadly or dangerous weapons must be used.’ Our Court in the case of Hunt v. State, 202 Tenn. 227 , 303 S.W.2d 740 , approved this statement.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. State · Bryant v. State““Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of another without malice, either express or implied, which may be either voluntary upon a sudden heat, or involuntary, but in the commission of some unlawful act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. State
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.