Rapier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · California v. Green · Douglas v. Alabama · Mattox v. United States · Patterson 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a leading question is to be allowed is a decision largely within the discretion of the trial court. On appeal it must be shown that there was an abuse of discretion (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King 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.