Rodriguez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Maestas (2012), 969 So. 2d 326 - Lightbourne v. McCollum (2007)
75 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Giglio v. United States · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]laims challenging the validity of jury instructions should be raised on direct appeal, not on motions for postconviction relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“characterized by significantly subaverage intellectual functioning (an IQ of approximately 70 or below) with onset before age 18 years and concurrent deficits or impairments in adaptive functioning.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the error must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.