Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Williamson v. State (1991), Green v. State (1985)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Erickson v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Cjrucial evidence — the incriminating statements of the appellant — did not come to the attention of the authorities until 1979 and 1980. It thus appears that the long delay in filing charges against the appellant was based on the need for proof of his guilt. To prosecute a defendant following an investigative delay does not deprive him of due process, even if his defense might have been somewhat prejudiced by the lapse of time.” Id. at 1175 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Story v. State“[A]dmissibility of evidence at trial is within the trial court's discretion, and the court's ruling is not reversible where there is no showing of prejudice to the defendant or breach of his fundamental rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Douma v. State“4. A statement is not hearsay if: (2) a statement of which he has manifested his adoption or belief in its truth, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wauqua 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.