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301 So. 2d 297 - Rush v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

44
cited by 44 later decisions
4
states following
April 2013
most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State (1989), Lockett v. State (1987)

43 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 Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · Marion v. Commonwealth · McGee v. Mississippi · 293 So. 2d 430 - Fields v. State · Johnson 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] common-law right of a person being tried for the commission of a crime to be free from all manner of shackles or bonds, whether of hands or feet, when in court in the presence of the jury....”
    16 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Doss v. State · Fisher v. State
  2. “While it is the right and privilege of a defendant to refrain from taking the witness stand, and no presumption is to be indulged against him for exercising that right, still the testimony of the witnesses against him may be given full effect by the jury, and the jury is likely to do so where it is undisputed and the defendant has refused to explain or deny the accusations against him.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 497 So. 2d 67 - McGilvery v. State · 551 So. 2d 188 - Benson v. State
  3. “I couldn't breathe and I was gagging and it kinda made me groggy.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 423 So. 2d 800 - McQueen v. State · 460 So. 2d 835 - Clemons 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.