Rigor v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Ponzi v. Fessenden (1922), Harris v. State (1969)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Mahon v. Justice · Wallace v. State · Ex parte Ah Men · State v. Wilson · Ex parte Ryan
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The penitentiary is not a place of sanctuary; and an incarcerated convict ought not to enjoy an immunity from trial merely because he is undergoing punishment on some earlier judgment of guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ponzi v. Fessenden
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.