State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably State v. Johnson (1966), State v. Shaffer (1971)
37 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. Barksdale · State v. Breedlove · State v. Straughan · State v. Weston · State v. Nichols
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The argument advanced by defendant is that charging that she did `unlawfully kill' Leroy Fontenot charges no criminal homicide, as the law defines only three killings as crimes: murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide, and to charge that she `unlawfully killed' charges neither of these three. But this indictment does charge the crime of `Manslaughter', for the indorsement of the foreman of the grand jury setting out the `Charge' for which a true bill was found is as much a part of the indictment as the remainder of the document. R.S. 15:3 (now Art. 383, La.Code Crim.Proc.). Thus the indictment answers the contention that it does not charge a criminal homicide when it unmistakeably charges `Manslaughter', a well-known and well-defined crime both historically and by the statute law of the State. It should be noted, too, that the indictment makes reference to the title and section of the revised statutes (R.S. 14:31) where the definition of manslaughter may be found. A fair reading of the whole document makes it apparent that the accused is charged with manslaughter and not some other killing such as murder or negligent homicide." (emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In the absence of evidence of hostile demonstration or of overt act on the part of the person slain or injured, evidence of his dangerous character or of his threats against accused is not admissible."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.