336 So. 2d 1133 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), Hitchcock v. Dugger (1987)
10 federal appellate · 109 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Furman v. Georgia · Lego v. Twomey · Murphy v. Florida · 246 So. 2d 771 - Richardson 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Relevant evidence should not be excluded from the jury unless no other remedy suffices.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kilpatrick v. State · King v. State“While death penalty cases command [this Court's] closest scrutiny, it is still the obligation of an appellate court to review with caution the exercise of experienced discretion by a trial judge in matters such as a motion for a continuance.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accompanied by such additional acts as to set the crime apart from the norm of capital felonies the conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riley v. State · Raulerson 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.