Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Mayes v. State (1994), Romano v. State (1993)
39 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 United States v. De Larosa · Williams v. State · Ray v. State · Sizemore v. State · Wright v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here there is competent evidence in the record from which the jury could reasonably conclude that the appellant was guilty as charged, the Court of Criminal Appeals will not interfere with the verdict, because it is the exclusive province of the jury to weigh the evidence and determine the facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sartin v. State · Smith v. State“These tactics — calling defendants liars, playing on societal alarm, invoking the jurors to set an example or instilling in their minds the impression that they are somehow accountable for the rising crime rate — are as reprehensible as they are familiar. Because they thwart the basic principle that the role of the jury is to determine only the guilt or innocence of an accused, they are offensive to a sense of justice and intolerable to this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Womble v. State“for where two or more defendants are charged with acting in concert, as here, evidence against each is available against the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilhite 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.