Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Skipper v. South Carolina · Hitchcock v. Dugger · Wrenn v. Weinberger · Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · Rath Packing Co. Creditors' Trust v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onflicting evidence on the identity of the actual killer can form the basis for a recommendation of life imprisonment.”
1 later decision 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.