Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Wright v. Illinois (1987), DeYoung v. State (1997)
2 federal appellate · 85 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Terry v. Ohio · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Cronic · Ashe v. Swenson
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant has no right to a jury selected from a list which perfectly mirrors the percentage structure of the community. What is required is a list which represents a fair cross section of the community and which is not the product of intentional racial or sexual discrimination. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. State“for the juror entertaining doubt which does not rise to reasonable doubt can be expected to resist those who would impose the irremedial penalty of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Burgess v. State“The age of a conviction is a matter which the defense may argue in mitigation, but it is no ground for the exclusion of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kinsman 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.