State v. Rust’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Jenkins (1984), State v. Goodman (1979)
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 96 state decisions — followed in 20 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Redline
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'all first degree murder crimes are capable of being accurately characterized by one or more of the descriptive adjectives employed, but by the use of the words”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Victor · State v. Hunt“exceptional depravity by ordinary standards of morality and intelligence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]oday in Holtan, we have also said that aggravating circumstance (d) exists where the murder is so coldly calculated as to indicate a state of mind totally and senselessly bereft of regard for human life.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Clarke · Moore v. Kinney
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.