State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2002
8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Duren v. Missouri · State v. Williams · State v. Duren · State v. McCrary · State v. Jones
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of other jurisdictions which have addressed this issue, the majority have determined that, although evidence of a prior conviction is admissible on a charge of possession of a concealable firearm by one convicted of a prior felony, such evidence is inadmissible as to other offenses jointly charged. Accordingly, we hold although the join-der of a charge of possession of a concealable firearm by one previously convicted of a dangerous felony with other charges is permissible under Rule 23.05, the prejudicial effect of the evidence of the prior conviction upon the issue of defendant’s guilt or innocence of the other charges outweighs the achievement of judicial economy and expedition underlying the permissible joinder rule. 3 Due process of law requires that the defendant’s right to a fair trial must be given priority over considerations of expense, efficiency and convenience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Townes“1. A person commits the crime of unlawful possession of a concealable firearm if he has any concealable firearm and: (1) He has pled guilty to ... a dangerous felony ... during the five-year period immediately preceding the date of such possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mayo
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.