Rice v. Gideon’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1995
14 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 Tapia v. Panhandle Steel Erectors Company · Reed v. Styron · Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres · Mantz v. Follingstad · Mangum v. Surles
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) That as a result of his negligence, he is in a position of peril, from which he cannot escape by the exercise of ordinary care; (c) That the defendant knows, or should have known, of plaintiff's peril; and (d) That defendant then had a clear chance, by the exercise of ordinary care, to avoid the injury, and that he failed to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Catalano v. Lewis
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.