Rowley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Maldonado v. State (1976), United States v. Monaghan (1984)
3 federal appellate · 70 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 Griffin v. California · United States v. Flannery · Desmond v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. James Leak, Relator-Appellant v. Harold W. Follette, Warden, Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York · Coleman 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘a comment made by a prosecuting attorney, directly or indirectly, which is subject to interpretation by a jury as a comment upon failure of a defendant to testify has been strictly regarded as an impingement on the substantial right of the defendant.’ 416 F.2d at 1043 .” Rowley v. State (1972), 259 Ind. 209, 213 , 285 N.E.2d 646, 648 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““According to the agreed statement: ‘Mr. Kiely [the prosecutor] had argued for sometime on what evidence there was concerning the guilt of the defendant and then made the remark that there had not been one bit of evidence from the witness stand that indicated the defendant was not guilty.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . if the defendant do [sic] not testify, his failure to do so shall not be commented upon or referred to in the argument of the cause, nor commented upon, referred to, or in any manner considered by the jury. . . .””
3 later decisions 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.