State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Marshall (1997), State v. Whitlow (1965)
39 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Page v. Work · Fisher v. United States · Etchieson v. Texas · People v. Lopez
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant simply urges, and we agree, that the reports of the examination should now be made available to him for inspection in order that he may fairly defend himself.... Defense counsel, whose investigatory resources are far from those of the State, should have the benefit of all that is in the reports by the State’s psychiatrists to the just end that he may intelligently advise as to the defense and properly prepare for trial. It must be borne in mind that even if the defendant is sane within the legal definitions, he is nonetheless entitled to introduce evidence relating to background and to any abnormal or subnormal mental condition; such evidence may bear heavily on the degree of guilt and on the measure of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“written statements or confessions made by the defendant and designated * * * papers or documents obtained from others except written statements or confessions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]mission of a specific discovery rule did not at all impair the inherent powers of the court to order discovery when justice so required.”
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.