State v. Cockerham’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2012
15 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 Doyle v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · State v. Linder · State v. Johnson · State v. Sloan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That night, February 9th, Dean Cocker-ham conducted a trial, much like the trial we are having here, in some ways, and in some ways, very far from it, because [the victim’s] Constitutional Rights, and the rights to a trial by jury didn’t do much for her that night, because on that night, he was her judge, he was her jury, and he was her executioner. And she didn’t have the right to ... be represented by a lawyer. She didn’t have the right to have independent people on her jury. Mr. Cocker-ham, loving Mr. Cockerham, took care of all that.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“imagine what kind of mood that young man was in the night the victim was killed, as he sits here today as quiet as can be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was an indirect but unmistakable reference to appellant's silence at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.