State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 130 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Thomas (1988), State v. Cooey (1989)
2 district · 130 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 Turner v. Louisiana · Harrison v. United States · Carpenter v. United States · State v. Childs · Oregon ex rel. State Land Board v. Corvallis Sand & Gravel Co.
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the language used was manifestly intended or was of such character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment on the failure of the accused to testify.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The term `while' does not indicate, as appellant contends, that the killing must occur at the same instant as the attempted rape, or that the killing must have been caused by the attempt, but rather, indicates that the killing must be directly associated with the attempted rape as part of one continuous occurrence, a situation present in the instant cause."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[0]nce a criminal intent has been formed, coupled with an overt act toward the commission of an offense, abandonment is no defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.