Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Bivins v. State (1995), Bellmore v. State (1992)
36 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Trop v. Dulles · Octopi, Inc. v. Courtney · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“stand more as guideposts for our appellate review than as immovable pillars supporting a sentence decision.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Roark v. State · Bivins v. State“this Court's review of capital cases under Article 7 is part and parcel of the sentencing process.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dye v. State · Roark v. State“On appeal against sentence the Court of Criminal Appeal shall, if they think that a different sentence should have been passed, quash the sentence passed at the trial, and pass such other sentence warranted in law by the verdict (whether more or less severe) in substitution therefor as they think ought to have been passed, and in any other case shall dismiss the appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Serino 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.