Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Livingston v. State (1987), Dowden v. State (1988)
38 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 Royster v. State · Carlsen v. State · Griffin v. State · Brown v. State · State v. Gunzelman
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.
“`Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "terror”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Now, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 11th day of April, 1983, in Harris County, Texas, the defendant, Guadalupe Gaitan Garcia, either acting alone or together with others as a party to the offense, did then and there unlawfully with the intent to commit aggravated rape, attempt to have intercourse with Graciela Pena [the complainant], ... by threatening the imminent infliction of serious bodily injury or death to Graciela Pena, then you will find the defendant guilty of aggravated rape as charged in the indictment, (emphasis added). Unless you so find the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the defendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State
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.