Cottingham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Turman v. State (1979), Hollon v. State (1980)
95 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 United States v. DeCoster · Blackburn v. State · Robbins v. State · Thomas v. State · Davis 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]n post-conviction proceedings the burden of proof rests with the petitioner to establish his grounds to relief by a preponderance of the evidence The judge hearing the petition is the sole judge of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witness His decision will be reversed only where the evidence is without conflict and leads unerringly to a result not reached by the trial court. . .” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidovic 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.