State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where accused robbed two or more persons at the same time the prosecution for one of the robberies does not prevent a subsequent prosecution for another.” Citing 22 C.J.S. Criminal Law § 298, at page. 788. “A putting in jeopardy for one act is no bar to a prosecution for a separate and distinct act merely because they are so closely connected in point of time that it is impossible to separate the evidence relating to them on the trial for the one of them first had.” Citing 15 Am.Jur. Criminal Law, § 390, at page 65.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Humphreys v. State

2. ““. . . Surely it is not the law that one who feloniously kills two or more persons during an altercation or in the commission of a felony, or by poison or by ambush, can only be convicted and punished for killing one of them. “In Morgan v. State, 220 Tenn. 247 , 415 S.W.2d 879 , our Supreme Court held that the two defendants who at the same time and place robbed three women who were living together and who jointly owned the money were properly prosecuted separately for the robbery of each of the women.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Humphreys v. State

3. “constitutional infirmit[y] ... in any prior stage of the proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Capri Adult Cinema v. State