Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We agree with the contentions of the appellant. It is hornbook law that a void judgment is a nullity, void ab initio. The trial court, after a hearing, agreed with petitioner’s contentions that he failed to have the benefit and assistance of counsel to which he was entitled and that there was a systematic exclusion of black persons from the grand jury which indicted him. The trial court then concluded that the convictions were “null and void.” The trial court could not thereafter breathe life into that order by limiting its collateral consequences to the present and future and not to the past. Judgment reversed with direction that the limiting language be stricken from the judgment. [Id. at 817.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re the Denial of Private Detective License of Hackett