364 So. 2d 382 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), Brown v. State (1980)
33 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 Fulghum v. State · Kemp v. State · Pierson v. State · Ragsdale v. State · 57 Ala. App. 375 - Collier 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] charge on a lesser-included offense should not be given when there is no reasonable theory from the evidence to support such a proposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To sustain a claim of self-defense, it is necessary that the following conditions be established: (1) that the accused was in actual or apparent peril; (2) that the accused was unable to retreat; and (3) that *Page 962 the accused was free from fault in bringing on the difficulty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owen v. State“If the undisputed evidence fails to establish one of these conditions, or there is no evidence warranting the findings of these conditions, the accused is not entitled to have his claim of self-defense submitted to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owen 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.