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State v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

101
cited by 101 later decisions
1
states following
November 2021
most recently cited

101 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Brown (1995), State v. Newsome (1996)

101 state decisions

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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 Irvin v. Dowd · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Smith v. Phillips · Remmer v. United States · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart

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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Upon motion of a defendant, the judicial authority may declare a mistrial at any time during the trial if there occurs during the trial an error or legal defect in the proceedings, or any conduct inside or outside the courtroom which results in substantial and irreparable prejudice to the defendant’s case.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “has wide discretion in deciding how to pursue an inquiry into the nature and effect of information that comes to a juror improperly as well as its potential effect upon the jury . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “A trial judge is generally in the best position to evaluate the critical question of whether the juror's or jurors' exposure to improper matter has prejudiced a defendant.”
    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.