Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably McCahill v. New York Transportation Co. (1911), Jefferson v. State (2008)
4 federal appellate · 62 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 Vaughan v. State · Holder v. State · People of the State of N.Y. v. . Dohring · Kee v. State · Hurley 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.
““If a-judge is put upon the stand as a witness, he has all the rights of a witness, and he is subject to all the duties .and liabilities of a witness. It may chance, that he may for reasons sufficient for himself, but not sufficient for another of equal authority in the Court, decline to answer a question put to him, or in some other way bring himself in conflict with the court. Who shall decide what course shall be taken with him? Shall he return to the bench and take part in disposing of the interlocutory question thus arising, and upon the decision being made, go back to the stand, or go into custody for contempt?' The first would be unseemly, if not unlawful, for it would be passing judicially upon his own case. The last would disorganize the court and suspend its proceedings. Other like results may be conceived as possible, equally as contrary to the good conduct of judicial proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powers v. Cook“to the hindering of justice, and to the scandal of the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bissel
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.