State v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2010
5 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 · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley · Invex Holdings, N.V. v. Equitable Life Insurance · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · State v. Bernard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is the defense? The defense is he has a mental defect that compels him, or so he claims, to sodomize and rape little girls; that somehow or another we ought to give him a break because he is driven to sodomize, kidnap, and rape children in our county. [[Image here]] Anybody that goes out and commits these kinds of acts on children obviously has got some problems. * * * The psychologist said he needs to be separated from the rest of society and he needs never be given access to small girls again.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Griggs
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.