State v. Rolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Hedger (1989), State v. Tucker (1975)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 57 Cal. 2d 135 - People v. Garner · Abbrescia v. United States · State v. Sowards · 174 Cal. App. 2d 624 - People v. Caruso · State v. Cypher
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a full opportunity to examine the presentence investigation report so that, if the defendant desires, he may explain and defend adverse matters therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coutts“influence the court in arriving at a sentence, full disclosure of the contents of such report must be made prior to any hearing on the sentence... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coutts“must be presented by the testimony of witnesses examined in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lipsky
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.