State v. Cobo’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Johnson (2017), State v. Verde (1989)
48 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 Wiborg v. United States · Clyatt v. United States · People v. Jones · People v. Munn · 114 Cal. App. 293 - People v. Miller
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * But in capital cases and in cases of grave and serious charged offenses and convictions of long terms of imprisonment, cases involving the life and liberty of the citizen, we think that when palpable error is made to appear on the face of the record and to the manifest prejudice of the accused, the court has the power to notice such error and to correct the same, though no formal exception was taken to the ruling.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen palpable error on the face of the record involved violations of fundamental rights .... 'we feel ourselves at liberty to correct it.' " (citation omitted)). Until recently, courts in this state have used the terms "exceptional circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson“* * * in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lancaster
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.