State v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2016
21 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 United States v. Myers · State v. Ouimette · State v. Verdone · State v. McGehearty · In Re Caldarone
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Evidence of flight may be a circumstance bearing on the question of guilt. The relevancy of flight as evidence of guilt, however, depends on the degree of confidence with which a chain of inferences can be followed. These are the things to consider: Number one, something the defendant did, led him to flee; number two, that he fled out of consciousness of the guilt; number three, that his consciousness of the guilt concerned the crime charged; number four, that his consciousness of guilt reflects actual guilt of a crime charged. The more immediate in time the flight is to the crime charged, the stronger the inference. So the bottom line is, that is something for you to consider as you consider all other facts and circumstances in this case. And you give it the weight you feel it’s entitled to, if, in fact, you find that there was such evidence in this case.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peabody · State v. Gomez““Also, during the course of this trial evidence of the defendant leaving the area of the crime was introduced which might circumstantially impact upon his possible guilt. The relevance of evidence of flight is to be determined by engaging in the inferential process. These inferences are that something the defendant did caused him to flee out of consciousness of guilt and that guilt derived from the crime charged reflecting actual guilt of the crime charged. The critical factor to consider is not whether the defendant has actual knowledge that he is fleeing from the specific crime charged but rather it is whether the totality of the evidence creates an inference that he had that knowledge. The more immediate in time the flight is to the crime charged, the stronger the inference.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Peabody
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.