State v. Rolen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 1995
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Joe Malloy v. State of South Carolina · 342 So. 2d 630 - State v. Sepulvado
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“punish as a crime an act previously committed which was prescribed or innocent when done, make more burdensome the punishment for a crime after that crime was committed, or deprive the defendant of any defense to a crime that was legally available when the crime was committed.”
1 later decision 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.