State v. Ruffins’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Orgain (1993), Wolford v. Lasater (1996)
2 federal appellate · 32 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3013
Relies on State v. Brown · Security Escrow Corp. v. State of Taxation & Revenue Department · State v. Aubrey · United States v. Mayberry · State v. Lopez
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Forgery consists of: A. falsely making or altering any signature to, or any part of, any writing purporting to have any legal efficacy with intent to injure or defraud; or B. knowingly issuing or transferring a forged writing with intent to injure or defraud. Whoever commits forgery is guilty of a third degree felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin · State v. Garvin“possessing the requisite intent: (1) falsely makes or alters a writing which purports to have legal efficacy; (2) physically delivers a forged writing; or (3) passes an interest in a forged writing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin“When a statute does not define its terms, general rules of statutory construction dictate that we interpret those terms in the common, ordinary sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.