State v. Rodrigues’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Melear (1981), State v. Sanabria (1984)
58 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 Costello v. United States · Davis v. Burke · Cowan v. First Ins. Co. of Hawaii, Ltd. · Commonwealth v. National Gettysburg Battlefield Tower, Inc. · State v. Bell
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a grand jury is impaneled, there shall be an independent counsel appointed as provided by law to advise the members of the grand jury regarding matters brought before it. Independent counsel shall be selected from among those persons licensed to practice law by the supreme court of the State and shall not be a public employee. The term and compensation for independent counsel shall be as provided by law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[diefin-ing the right in terns of present laws imposes no new legal duties on parties,” indicating that, at the time the amendment was adopted, there were other laws in existence to which the phrase”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“further legislation was required to implement the amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.