Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
September 2014
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Moreno v. State · Sharp v. State · Livingston v. State · Penagraph 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) every person is competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided in these rules. The following witnesses shall be incompetent to testify in any proceeding subject to these rales: [[Image here]] (2) Children. Children or other persons who, after being examined by the court, appear not to possess sufficient intellect to relate transactions with respect to which they are interrogated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Reyna v. State · Hollinger 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.