State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 789 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Arnett (2000)
2 federal appellate · 789 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Barker v. Wingo · State v. Jenks · Wainwright v. Witt
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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prosecution's race-neutral explanation need not rise to the level of a challenge for cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Groce · State v. Walker“long held that circumstantial evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction if that evidence would convince the average mind of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance; that is, the defendant must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action 'might be considered sound trial strategy.'”
2 later decisions 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.