4 Ariz. App. 318 - State v. Cousins’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably State v. Dessureault (1969), State v. Dickens (1996)
34 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 Kinsey v. State of Arizona · State v. Favors · State v. Krug · State v. Weis · 1 Ariz. App. 112 - State v. Farrell
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.
“"The record does not disclose a request by the defendant for an instruction relative to the right of a defendant to not testify. It is error to instruct on this subject unless the defendant so requests." State v. Cousins, 4 Ariz. App. 318 , 420 P.2d 185 (1966).”
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.