Rainwater v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2022
15 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 State v. Sanchez · State v. McMillen · State v. Rainwater
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[k]idnapping remains a class 2 felony and was made subject to the two-step reduction as an expression of legislative policy to encourage the voluntary and safe release of victims by their kidnappers before actual injury or death might occur,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eagle“[AJs a matter of law, the reduction presupposes that all elements of a completed kidnapping have been established such that the victim has in fact been restrained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rathbun v. State“kidnapping is presumptively a class 4 felony ... and is raised to class 2 if the victim is not voluntarily and safely released.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eagle
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.