Rhymes v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 697 So. 2d 777 - Coleman v. State (1997), Gray v. State (1998)
55 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 Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · 550 So. 2d 406 - Smith v. State · Prince v. Alabama · 583 So. 2d 165 - Adams 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.
“It is well settled in this state ... that a change in the indictment is permissible if it does not materially alter facts which are the essence of the offense on the face of the indictment as it originally stood or materially alter a defense to the indictment as it originally stood so as to prejudice the defendant's case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Greenlee v. State · Miller v. State“the delay is neither intentional nor egregiously protracted, and where there is a complete absence of actual prejudice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is fundamental that courts may amend indictments only to correct defects of form, however, defects of substance must be corrected by the grand jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.