State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably State v. Smith (1980), State v. Cherry (1979)
55 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 State v. Thomas · The People v. McWilliams · State v. Stansbury · State v. Shepherd · State v. . Parker
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In making a determination of this nature after a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, a court is not confined to evidence relating to the offense charged. It may look anywhere, within reasonable limits, for other facts calculated to enable it to act wisely in fixing punishment. Hence, it may inquire into such matters as the age, the character, the education, the environment, the habits, the mentality, the propensities, and the record of the person about to be sentenced. S. v. Stansbury, supra. In so doing the court is not bound by the rules of evidence which obtain in a trial where guilt or innocence is put in issue by a plea of not guilty. People v. McWilliams, 348 Ill. 333 , 180 N.E. 832 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peatross · State v. Moore“to enable it to exercise a sound discretion in determining the extent of the punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swinney
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.