Rodriquez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Rousseau v. State (1993), Livingston v. State (1987)
31 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 Bruton v. United States · Harrington v. California · Hilliard v. State · Reyna 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits an offense if he: [[Image here]] (3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. State · Bell v. State“[T]he culpable mental state for the act of murder is supplied by the mental state accompanying the underlying committed or attempted felony giving rise to the act. The transference of the mental element establishing criminal responsibility for the original act to the resulting act conforms to and preserves the traditional mens rea requirement of the criminal law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Garrett v. State · Bell v. State““unless he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence engages in conduct as the definition of the offense requires.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lomax v. State · Lugo-Lugo 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.