State v. Rodman’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Geer v. State of Connecticut (1896), Lacoste v. Department of Conservation of State of Louisiana (1924)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Phelps v. . Racey · Magner v. People · Gentile v. State · American Express Co. v. People · Organ 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The preservation of [wild] animals as are adapted to consumption as food, or to any other useful purpose, is a matter of public interest; and it is within the police power of the state, as the representative of the people in their united sovereignty, to enact such laws as will best preserve such game, and secure its beneficial use in the future to the citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The [cruel or unusual punishment clause] is directed, not so much against the amount or duration of the punishment, as against the character, of it, what was in mind being those punishments which were cruel and degrading in their nature, and which had been condemned by public opinion years before the adoption of our constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Combs
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.