State v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Fisher (2003), State v. Martinez (1996)
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Michel v. United States · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · Brown v. Wj Dodd · United States v. Callahan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that allowing juror-inspired questions in a criminal case is not prejudicial per se, but is a matter committed to the sound discretion of the trial court. To minimize the risk of prejudice ... the practice must be carefully controlled by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Culkin“[T]he trial court must carefully consider the possible prejudice which may result from questions submitted by jurors to a criminal defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Culkin“Propriety of Jurors Asking Questions in Open Court During Course of Trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.