Rice v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Thomas v. State (1987), Allen v. State (2002)
65 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Fisher v. United States · Fields v. State · Crosswhite v. State · Smith 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant is a persistant [sic] offender, punishable by sentence to an extended term of imprisonment under Section 558.016 RSMo in that he has been previously convicted of at least two felonies committed at different times and not related to the instant crime as a single episode, said previous convictions being as follows: 1. possession and uttering forged instrument in 1958[,] 2. robbery first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon in 1960[,] 3. robbery first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon in 1960[, and] 4. carrying concealed weapon in 1960[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. State““The claim that an attorney’s investigation of a case is inadequate must allege what specific information the attorney failed to discover, that reasonable investigation would have disclosed that information and that the information would have aided or improved appellant’s position.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marberry 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.