State v. Cooley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2020
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Wong Sun v. United States · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Ventresca · Gerstein v. Pugh · Dunaway v. New York
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]nformation scattered among various officers in a police department cannot substitute for possession of the necessary facts by a single officer related to the arrest'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To say in the abstract that probable cause is to be evaluated on the basis of the collective information of the police ignores the underlying assumption--and factual reality--that there is some communication between those officers, who do know facts amounting to probable cause, and those who do not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MEB · United States v. Meade“[T]o receive appeals from the Superior Court in criminal causes, upon application by the State in all causes in which the Superior Court, or any inferior court an appeal from which lies to the Superior Court, has granted an accused any of the following: a new trial or judgment of acquittal after a verdict, modification of a verdict, arrest of judgment, relief in any post-conviction proceeding or in any action collaterally attacking a criminal judgment, or a new punishment hearing in a capital case after the court has imposed a sentence of death, or any order or judgment declaring any act of the General Assembly, or any portion of any such act, to be unconstitutional under either the Constitution of the United States or the State of Delaware, inoperative or unenforceable, except that no appeal shall lie where otherwise prohibited by the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution of the United States or of this State. Notwithstanding anything in this Article to the contrary, the General Assembly may by statute implement the jurisdiction herein conferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright 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.