State v. Rombolo’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably State v. Kociolek (1957), State v. Orecchio (1954)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 State v. Lapp
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person convicted of murder in the first degree, his aiders, abettors, counsellors and procurers, shall suffer death unless the jury at the time of rendering the verdict in such case shall recommend imprisonment at hard labor for life, in which case this and no greater punishment shall be imposed. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. White“to determine, within the limits fixed by the statute, what”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Grillo
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.