Rollings v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably Nichols v. State (1958), Knight v. State (1962)
99 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 Gassenheimer v. State · Campbell v. State · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Pearson · Whitaker v. State · McCormack v. State
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wearing apparel of deceased, showing the location of the bullets, the character and nature of the wound, the blood stains, etc., were properly admissible under the rules stated above, and it is no reason to exclude them that these matters might be shown by other evidence, or that these objects might prejudice the jurors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terry v. State“had no tendency to show how, by whom, or in what manner deceased was killed.”
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.