Cowan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wofford v. State · 200 Ga. App. 57 - Miller 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consciously disregarded the substantial and unjustifiable risk that he might [die] - and that that disregard constituted a gross deviation from the standard of care a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ayers-Jones 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.