Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1997
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Granviel v. State · Franklin v. State · Coulter v. State · Gonzales v. State · Easterling v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the vast majority of cases in which argument is made or testimony comes in, deliberately or inadvertently, which has no relevance to any material issue in the case and carries with it some definite potential for prejudice to the accused, this Court has relied upon what amounts to an appellate presumption that an instruction to disregard the evidence will be obeyed by the jury. # ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ‡ # This is true “except in extreme cases where it appears ... evidence is clearly calculated to inflame the minds of the jury and is of such a character as to suggest the impossibility of withdrawing the impression produced on their minds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Butler v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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