Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Levia (1982), Griffin v. State (1981)
80 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 Simmons v. United States · South Dakota v. Opperman · Weems v. United States · Baggett v. Bullitt · Berra 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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant argues that the only difference between a class C felony [robbery with no “bodily injury”], carrying a five year sentence, and a class A felony [robbery with “bodily injury”], carrying a thirty year sentence, can be a ‘painlessly broken fingernail.’ “Here we do not have a mere broken fingernail but bruised ribs and a bruised and swollen face, which injuries were suffered as a result of defendant kicking the victim. Defendant doesn’t mention the added humiliation of absorbing a beating while being robbed or the increased depravity of a criminal exhibited by such conduct. These are factors which the legislature likely had in mind when setting the sentence for this crime. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Hanic v. State“"We can think of no phenomenon of more common experience and understanding than the concepts of 'bodily injury' and 'physical pain' Likewise, we do not find the concept of 'impairment of physical condition' to be so esoteric as to avoid a consensus of meaning among persons of common intelligence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Bodily injury’ means any impairment of physical condition, including physical pain.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. State · Hanic 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.