State v. Rockholt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably State v. Sugar (1985), 465 So. 2d 516 - Cruz v. State (1985)
2 district · 46 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · State v. Talbot
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public law enforcement official or a person engaged in cooperation with such an official or one acting as an agent of a public law enforcement official perpetrates an entrapment if for the purpose of obtaining evidence of the commission of an offense, he induces or encourages and, as a direct result, causes another person to engage in conduct constituting such offense by either: * * * * * * * * (2) Employing methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such an offense will be committed by persons other than those who are ready to commit it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he issue of entrapment shall be tried by the trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]redisposition is not the same as mens rea. The former involves the defendant's character and criminal inclinations; the latter involves the defendant's state of mind while carrying out the allegedly illegal act... . [T]he nonpredisposition that is necessary to establish entrapment is not equivalent to the absence of the mental culpability required for the underlying crime.”
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.