State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Burkhart (2002), State v. Palmer (2011)
42 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 State v. Merrill · State v. Wahlberg · State v. Ulvinen · State v. Moore · State v. Anderson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because intent and premeditation are states of mind, they are generally proved circumstantially-by drawing inferences from the defendant's words and actions in light of the totality of the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. State“A finding of premeditation does not require proof of extensive planning or preparation to kill, nor does it require any specific period of time for deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Profit“[T]he jury may infer that a person intends the natural and probable consequences of his actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Profit
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.