Rumbo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2023
1 federal appellate · 6 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 Sanders v. State · Hill v. State · Hanna v. State · Wauqua v. State · Craft 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has held that it is the duty of the trial court to determine as a matter of law whether the evidence is sufficient to justify the submission of instructions on a lesser included offense. If there is a doubt, the court should submit the matter to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there is no evidence to support a lower degree of the crime charged, the court should not ask the jury to consider the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams 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.