Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Taylor (1996), State v. Malave (1999)
54 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 · Berger v. United States · Darden v. Wainwright · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Lutwak v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is generally also outside the boundaries of proper argument to comment on a defendant’s failure to call a witness. This can be viewed as impermissibly shifting the burden of proof to the defense. Such shifting is improper because “[i]t suggests to the jury that it was the defendant’s burden to produce proof by explaining the absence of witnesses or evidence. This implication is clearly inaccurate."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was within the parameters of proper argument to point out to the jury that [a witness's] testimony might be incredible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]xplaining to the jury why [the witness] might be lying is permissible argument.”
1 later decision 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.