State v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Roberts v. Louisiana (1976), 424 So. 2d 246 - State Ex Rel. Elaire v. Blackburn (1982)
67 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Stoner v. California · James v. State of Louisiana · State v. Comeaux
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is sufficient evidence in the record to support a conviction for a greater offense (which includes the one for which the defendant is convicted), the evidence necessarily and automatically will support a conviction of the lesser offense which has been made responsive by legislative action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An attempt is a separate but lesser grade of the intended crime; and any person may be convicted of an attempt to commit a crime, although it appears on the trial that the crime intended or attempted was actually perpetrated by such person in pursuance of such attempt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Little · State v. Green“"`Under our peculiar jurisprudence, arising from the fact that on trials for murder the jury may find the prisoner guilty of manslaughter, although the evidence may show him to be guilty of murder, it is necessarily true that a verdict for manslaughter operates as an acquittal of the charge of murder, especially as it is the mandatory duty of the trial judge, whether so requested or not, to charge the jury that they may return a verdict for the lesser crime, regardless of the fact that the evidence may prove the graver offense to have been committed. State v. Cook, 117 La. 114 , 41 So. 434 ; State v. O'Conner, 119 La. 464 , 44 So. 265 ; State v. Ford, 37 La.Ann. 443 ; State v. Brown, 40 La.Ann. [725], 727, 4 So. 897 ; State v. Brown, 41 La.Ann. 410 , 6 So. 670 ; State v. Clark, 46 La. Ann. 704 , 15 So. 83 ; State v. Thomas, 50 La.Ann. 148 , 23 So. 250 ; State v. Wright, 104 La. [44], 45, 28 So. 909 ; State v. Hicks, 113 La. 779 , 37 So. 753 .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.