Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Lupoe v. State (2016), Jones v. State (2013)
74 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 Osborne v. Ohio · In re Williamson · Mason v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. · State v. Miller · State v. Fielden
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any organization, association, or group of three or more persons associated in fact, whether formal or informal, which engages in criminal gang activity as defined in paragraph (1) of this Code section.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“by committing certain enumerated predicate offenses: It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with a criminal street gang to conduct or participate in criminal gang activity through the commission of any offense enumerated in paragraph (1) of Code Section 16-15-3. OCGA § 16-15-4(a). Neither appellant challenges his adjudication of the predicate offensebattery. See OCGA §§ 16-15-3(1)(A); 16-14-3(9)(A)(v); 16-5-23.1 (battery). Rather they contend the State failed to show both that their gangs fit the definition of”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Anthony v. State · In Re Cp“[A] conviction under OCGA § 16-15-4(a) requires that there `be some nexus between the enumerated act and an intent to further street gang activity.' [Cit.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Broxton v. State · In Re Cp
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.