People v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2021
4 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[Qingerprints have nothing to do with the issues in this case' and the jury should '[florget the fingerprints, because that’s not what we’re talking about here.’ ” Id. This instruction, the appellate court held, constituted reversible error, as it eliminated an essential element of Rodriguez’s defense from the consideration of the jury and”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Atkins v. State · State v. Collins“stressed that, since no fingerprints were found on the recovered weapon, the officers could have been mistaken in claiming [that the] defendant had possession of a handgun,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“eliminat[ing] from the jury's consideration an essential element of the defense,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins
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.