State v. Copher’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2014
4 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. Shuler · State v. Reeder
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Let me tell you what the defendant has to prove. This is what the defendant has to prove. He has to prove by the greater weight of the evidence that at the time and place referred to, he did not know that Steve Ford was an officer of the Joplin Police Department. What I am trying to tell you is this: It’s not up to the State to prove that he did know; it’s up to the defendant to that he did not know.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statute makes it a separate and distinct crime to assault a police officer engaged in the performance of his duties. What would ordinarily be a ... misdemeanor... becomes a felony if the person willfully assaulted is a police officer engaged in his duties as such.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baker“knowledge that the person assaulted is a police officer engaged in his duties is a necessary element for conviction under § 557.215.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baker
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.