State v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Cornwell (1999)
209 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 Collins v. Youngblood · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · State v. Smith · Van Fossen v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“amended sentencing provisions of [Senate Bill 2] apply only to those crimes committed on or after July 1, 1996.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed to the crime, when committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the amended sentencing provisions of S.B. 2 are applicable to those defendants who committed crimes prior to, but were convicted after, its July 1, 1996 effective date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.