Rabb v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Black v. State (1991), Skillern v. State (1995)
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 Raphan v. United States · Estelle v. Passmore · Ex Parte Chambers · Kelley v. State · Perez 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Questions involving the constitutionality of a statute upon which a defendant's conviction is based should be addressed by appellate courts, even when such issues are raised for the first time on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Flores v. State · Black 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.