Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 549 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 557 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Wicks v. State (1980), McDonald v. State (2004)
2 federal appellate · 549 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Geders v. United States · Collins v. State · Giles v. State · Houser v. United States
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 557 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“More than five years have passed since petitioner’s commitment,. . .If a grave injustice was committed, why did petitioner wait so long to file his petition? Petitioner is not claiming relief under some new law that has been applied retroactively but his allegations could easily have been raised five years ago in a motion for new trial. He could have filed his petition for post-conviction relief as soon as the mandate affirming the judgment was issued by this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bramlett v. State“When the defendant appears for judgment.... he must be asked if he has any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White 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.