Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2025
3 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Gravatt v. United States · Williams v. State · Hunnicutt v. State · Scott v. State · Clonce 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The identity of name of the defendant and the person previously convicted is prima facie evidence of identity of person, and in the absence of rebutting testimony, supports a finding of such identity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in addition to identity of name [i.e., between the defendant and the individual named in the judgment of conviction], there must be other facts and circumstances for the jury to consider in reaching their verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toliver v. Evans“there were absolutely no other facts and circumstances for the jury to consider in making its determination whether [Mr. Cooper] was the one and same as the person listed on the Judgment and Sentences,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toliver v. Evans
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.