State v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
April 1985
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frisbie v. Collins · 312 F. Supp. 1349 - Johnson v. Buie · State v. Holmes · State v. Belleville · Huffman 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But there is no evidence fingerprints were taken by the police from those articles or from defendant’s fingers for comparison. It was not incumbent upon the state to take defendant’s fingerprints from the articles he touched, or, if taken, produce them in evidence. Nor is the state required to account for their absence. At most the fingerprints would have been merely cumulative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyd
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.