Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2016
18 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. Equitable Trust Co. · Adoption of v. M. C. · Burrell v. Burrell · Burks v. Burks · Anchorage v. McCabe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Exposing the state to costs and attorney's fees when a child is ultimately determined not to be in need of aid would significantly chill the state's willingness to commence protective proceedings for children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Children in need of aid proceedings are intended to promote an important public interest: the welfare of children.”
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.