Rice v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 1997
24 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 William Marbury v. James Madison
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any question can be raised before the judiciary upon the discretion of the legislature under that section [the statute on' murder] we concur that it has not been abused in leaving the question of assessing that penalty to the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cox 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.