Roy Louis Rodriguez v. James R. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 1250 · 1986
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), Lambert v. Blodgett (2004)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Blackledge v. Perry · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Boykin does not require the state court to enumerate all of the rights a defendant waives so long as the record indicates that the plea was entered voluntarily and knowingly.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a guilty plea in adult court waives defects in a juvenile fitness hearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert v. Blodgett
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.