Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), 481 So. 2d 203 - Fisher v. State (1985)
61 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 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · 459 So. 2d 793 - Fairchild v. State · 278 So. 2d 384 - Glass v. State · 458 So. 2d 726 - Stevens v. State · Ransom v. State
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Flight is a mode of escaping danger to which a party is not bound to resort, so long as he is in a place where he has a right to be, and is neither engaged in an unlawful, nor the provoker of, nor the aggressor in, the combat. In such case he may stand his ground and resist force by force, taking care that his resistance be not disproportioned to the attack.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“belief, without reasonable cause therefor, that it was necessary for her to kill in order to prevent the deceased from inflicting death or great bodily harm upon her. Regardless of how bona fide (in good faith) the belief of appellant was as to danger of great bodily harm to herself, the test is whether or not a reasonable person under the same or similar circumstances would have considered herself to be in such danger and would have thought there was reasonable cause to kill her lover for her own protection. The phrase”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he term apparent danger, as applied in cases of homicide, means such overt demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or do some great personal injury, as would make the killing reasonably apparently necessary to self-preservation or to escape great bodily harm. Section 2218(f), Code 1942, makes homicide justifiable[:] When committed in the lawful defense of one’s own person or any other human being, where there shall be reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great personal injury, and there shall be imminent danger of such design being accomplished.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State · Young 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.