Cooper v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
14 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 Meachum v. Fano · Flanary v. Rowlett · City of Jackson v. Heritage Savings & Loan Ass'n · Nations v. Ramsey · King Louie Bowling Corp. v. Missouri Insurance Guaranty Ass'n
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Declaratory Judgment Act 'is neither a general panacea for all legal ills nor a substitute for existing remedies. It is not to be invoked where an adequate remedy already exists.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a Rule 27.26 motion was the legally proper procedure available to appellant and he availed himself of that remedy,” so he could not request a declaratory judgment as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Charron 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.