State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Connecticut v. Johnson (1983), State v. Hinckley (1985)
168 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 Chapman v. State of California · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · State v. Ruth · State v. Lonergan · State v. Annunziato
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the familial kitchens of this state. The trial court did not err in not giving the defendant's requested instruction that he had no duty to retreat from his codweller even if he could safely do so. The defendant also claims error in the trial court's refusal to give a requested self-defense in the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw“correct in the law, adapted to the issues and sufficient to guide the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shaw
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.