Cobern v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
190 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably People v. Bartowsheski (1983), 463 So. 2d 1048 - West v. State (1985)
190 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 Parsons v. State · Reedy v. State · Johnson v. State · Goldin v. State · People v. Jordan
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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"I charge you members of the jury, that even if the defendant killed the victim for some purpose unrelated to the theft, the taking of the property from the victim after the murder constitutes robbery, if the murder and the subsequent taking of the property formed a continuous chain of events.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“' Where the property was in the control, custody, and protection of the person from whom it is alleged to have been taken, it is not necessary to sustain a conviction of robbery, that it should have been in actual physical contact with his person. '”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Appellant brings very cogent argument that the photographs of the victim introduced by the State were inadmissible, shed no light on the matters at issue, and were but gruesome evidence, the sole effect of which was to inflame the jury. We do not think so, and even appellant in brief ‘acknowledges the fact that the Supreme -Court of this state has been liberal in the admission of gruesome photographs into evidence, though the same be merely cumulative in nature.’ Robbery is a crime of violence and undoubtedly the photographs of the victim, even though unsightly, were admissible as tending to illustrate the gravity of the assault. By analogy see Johnson v. State, 272 Ala. 633 , 133 So.2d 53 (4); Reedy v. State, 246 Ala. 363 (10), 20 So.2d 528 .””
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.