Rhea v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Witherspoon v. Illinois (1968), Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978)
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is not an unvarying and inflexible one. It is not a conclusive presumption to be applied in all cases. It has its proper limitations and exceptions, and when a statute which has received a judicial construction is amended in respect of a matter and on a point regarding which such prior construction in a large measure rests, the reason for the rule fails, and with it the rule itself ceases in its application. For the same reason the rule does not apply with full force when the adopted statute is not in all respects, or in its scope and effect, similar to the statute of the state from which adopted, although in its main features the same.””
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.