Cokeley v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 916 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2018
11 federal appellate · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Missouri v. Hunter · Thornhill v. Alabama · Zant v. Stephens
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We need take no position regarding the proper interpretation of the Arkansas rape statute. Indeed, resolution of that matter lies distinctly within the province of the state court and we accept the decision of the state court. For our purposes, the only significant issue arising from the conflicting interpretations is that the two-offense interpretation set out in [Clayborn v. State, 278 Ark. 533 , 647 S.W.2d 433 (1983) ] was controlling precedent at the time Cokeley committed the crime and throughout the period he was charged, tried and convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Kassulke“be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation”
1 later decision 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.