State v. Ramseur’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 591 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 629 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Saffle v. Parks (1990), Jones v. United States (1999)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 591 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Swain v. State of Alabama · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 629 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rosecutorial misconduct is not ground for reversal of a criminal conviction unless the conduct was so egregious that it deprived defendant of a fair trial.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`as a check against the random and arbitrary imposition of the death penalty' by an aberrant jury.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[d]efendant intended to cause a third party who [was] not [a] victim to suffer.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Wilkins · State v. Jones
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.