Rodgers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gardner v. State · Miller v. Walker · State v. Eckhardt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We surmise that the purpose of education credit time is to encourage inmates to educate themselves during their confinement period in the hope that they will be rehabilitated and become more productive members of society upon their release.... Inmates should be rewarded for earning diplomas and degrees and for remaining on good behavior during the time period in which they are working to successfully complete the requirements for the diplomas and degrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Renfroe v. Parke“a pattern consistent with rehabilitation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diaz 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.