State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably State v. Ludt (2009), State v. Ross (2017)
102 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] n affirmative *Page 6 defense does not negate the legal adequacy of the state's proof for purposes of submitting it to the jury. An affirmative defense involves an excuse or justification for doing an otherwise illegal act. See R.C. 2901.05 (C)(2). It does not deny the existence of the act; it simply provides a legal justification for it. Thus, the test for sufficiency of the evidence does not apply to affirmative defenses because the focus is solely upon the substantive elements of the charged offense — not the strength of the defendant's justification for his actions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`reviewing the entire record, weighs the evidence and all reasonable inferences, considers the credibility of witnesses and determines whether in resolving conflicts in the evidence, the jury clearly lost its way and created such a manifest miscarriage of justice that the conviction must be reversed and a new trial ordered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nce the state has satisfied the question of legal adequacy * * *, the question of the relative persuasiveness of [a self-defense affirmative defense] must await a jury's determination and face appellate scrutiny under a manifest weight of the evidence analysis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Debord · State v. Green
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.