State v. Cooey’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 498 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 527 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Carter (1995), State v. Dennis (1997)
9 federal appellate · 498 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gregg v. Georgia · United States v. Ventresca · Lockett v. Ohio · Williams v. People of State of 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 527 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a defendant may not offer expert psychiatric testimony, unrelated to the insanity defense, to show that, due to mental illness, intoxication, or any other reason, he lacked the mental capacity to form the specific mental state required for a particular crime or degree of crime.' State v. Cooey (1989), 46 Ohio St.3d 20 , 26 , 544 N.E.2d 895 ; accord Mitts, 81 Ohio St.3d at 227 , 690 N.E.2d 522 ; State v. Wilcox (1982), 70 Ohio St.2d 182 , 194 , 24 O.O.3d 284 , 436 N.E.2d 523 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he use of an `inherently coercive tactic' during interrogation is a prerequisite to a finding of involuntariness. Such tactics include, e.g. , physical abuse, threats, or deprivation of food, medical treatment, or sleep.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'he lacked the mental capacity to form the specific mental state required for a particular crime or degree of crime.'”
3 later decisions 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.