State v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
561 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 563 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 893 So. 2d 7 - State v. Williams (2004), State v. Barling (2001)
561 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 Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz · 639 So. 2d 237 - State v. Smith · 445 So. 2d 1155 - State v. Humphrey · 662 So. 2d 446 - State v. Rolen · 418 So. 2d 609 - State v. Green
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 563 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remains in the best position to assess the aggravating and mitigating circumstances presented by each case.”
88 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Debarge · State v. Clark“`whether the trial court abused its broad sentencing discretion, not whether another sentence might have been more appropriate.'”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hoever commits the crime of forcible rape shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five nor more than forty years. At least two years of the sentence imposed shall be without benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.