People v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably State v. Poland (1982), State v. Hogg (1978)
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he interest of the Federal and state governments in prosecuting a criminal act frequently coincide. When state and Federal interests do coincide, prosecution by one sovereign will satisfy the need of the other. We note that persons convicted in Federal court only very rarely are prosecuted in state courts for offenses arising out of the same criminal act. Moreover, we do not perceive an inability or unwillingness to corporate among state and Federal criminal justice officials. Law enforcement agencies are not separate and independent in this age of ‘cooperative federalism’, as the United States Supreme Court has observed, ‘where the Federal and State Governments are waging a united front against many types of criminal activity’. People v. Cooper, supra, 247 N.W.2d at 870.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether the maximum penalties of the statutes involved are greatly disparate, whether some reason exists why one jurisdiction cannot be entrusted to vindicate fully another jurisdiction's interests in securing a conviction, and whether the differences in the statutes are merely jurisdictional or are more substantive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Const. 1963, art. 1, § 15 prohibits a second prosecution for an offense arising out of the same criminal act unless it appears from the record that the interests of the State of Michigan and the jurisdiction which initially prosecuted are substantially different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Davis · People v. Smith
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.