Rutan v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
June 2020
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Wheat v. United States · Wood v. Georgia · Spuehler 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The credibility of witnesses and the weight and consideration to be given to their testimony are within the exclusive province of the trier of facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. WALL v. STATE · MASON v. STATE
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.