State v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 377 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 381 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2011 · most notably Morgan v. Illinois (1992), State v. McCollum (1993)
2 federal appellate · 377 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 Gregg v. Georgia · State v. Odom · ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · State v. Smith · McDougall v. North Carolina
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 381 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not contain the viciousness and the cruelty present”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chandler · State v. Lyons“In determining whether the evidence tends to show that another crime and the crime charged were part of a course of conduct, and therefore constitute a proper basis to submit the course of conduct aggravating circumstance to the jury, the trial court must consider “a number of factors, among them the temporal proximity of the events to one another, a recurrent modus operandi, and motivation by the same reasons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gibbs“a trial judge should exercise extreme caution in this area and should refrain from finding perjury as an aggravating factor except in the most extreme case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vandiver
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.