Rhodes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2004
4 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 Cox v. State · Parks 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You can, on the one hand, say to [the officer] ... and all of the rest of them with the Houston Police Department: “You may go and do the best you can to stop crime. We don’t mind if you get shot; we don’t care, and we are not going to support law enforcement in this county.’ Or by your verdict you may say, ‘Officer ... and those that serve with you, we are proud of you and we appreciate what you are doing for us. We want to help in every way that we can. When [the defendant] takes his pistol and tries to kill you, we are going to support you and find him guilty of the offense ..., because this is what he did.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robbins 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.