611 So. 2d 460 - Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2011
24 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Komen v. Robbins · Laughlin v. Internal Revenue Service · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Lynn v. Alabama
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"After the appellant makes a timely Batson motion and establishes a prima facie showing of discrimination, the burden shifts to the state to provide a race-neutral reason for each strike. . . . See, e.g., Ex parte Bird , 594 So. 2d 676 (Ala. 1991) . We will reverse the circuit court's ruling on the Batson motion only if it is `clearly erroneous.' Jackson v. State , 549 So. 2d 616 (Ala. Cr. App. 1989)."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It is not necessary that there be a formal record of a certain type of misconduct to justify the posting of armed guards. Within constitutional limits, great weight must be accorded the discretion of the trial court, the trial judge is responsible for maintaining order in his courtroom. He understands infinitely better than we what is necessary to perform his duty."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 13A-8-43 , Code of Alabama 1975, provides, in pertinent part:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.