Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Childs v. State (1987), Maxwell v. State (1992)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Caffo v. State · Barnes v. State · Blalock v. State · Mullinax 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of previous difficulties between a defendant and victim is relevant to show defendant’s motive and bent of mind. [Cits.] The evidence of the prior incidents] was relevant here, particularly in light of the appellant’s contention at trial that the [death] was an accident. . . . [W]here the evidence sheds light on the defendant’s conduct toward the victim, its relevance outweighs its prejudicial effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrett 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.