State v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
202 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Whelan (1986), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
202 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 Bullock v. United States · Connecticut v. Johnson · Johnson v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Baker v. United States · State v. Mason
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now, as.,to the first count, which is entitled ‘Capital Felony Murder,’ the gist of the statute reads as follows: ‘A person is guilty of capital felony who commits murder in the course of the commission of sexual assault in the first degree.’ “There are basically two elements: first, that the defendant committed murder, and, secondly, it was done in the course of sexual assault in the first degree. “Now, as to the first element, if you did not find or do not find that the defendant was guilty of murder, as I have instructed you, as to the third count, you need go no further with this count, and you must find the defendant not guilty of capital felony murder; and this even goes if you found the defendant guilty of a lesser included charge of murder. And the only way you continue with this charge is if you find the defendant guilty of murder as to the third count. “If you find him guilty as to a lesser included charge of manslaughter, it does not fulfill the first element, and you need go no further with this count. “If, on the other hand, you find the defendant guilty of murder, you must consider the second count. As to the second count, sexual assault in the first degree is set out in the statute as follows: ‘A person is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree when such person compels another person to engage in sexual intercourse by the use of force against such other person.’ “Now, actually, when you consider that statute, you can break it down into the two elements o”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Usry“It offends neither logic nor reason that a particular fact may give rise to contradictory inferences. The inference ultimately drawn by the jury need not be the only rational inference possible. Our law confides to the jury the difficult task of deciding among often conflicting inferences which logically and reasonably may flow from the same basic fact. In its consideration of the evidence the jury must rely on its common sense, experience and knowledge of human nature in drawing inferences and reaching conclusions of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mental state associated with the crime of attempt to commit murder is the ‘intent to cause the death of another person”' (citation omitted).); People v. Mitchell, 98 Ill.App.3d 398, 402 , 53 Ill.Dec. 867, 870 , 424 N.E.2d 658, 661 (1981) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell
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