Rippo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021 · most notably Kaczmarek v. State (2004), Gallego v. State (2001)
57 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · Darden v. Wainwright · Payne v. Tennessee
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There seems to be little doubt that when Rippo was shocking these victims with a stun gun, he was doing so for the purpose of causing them pain and terror and for no other purpose. Rippo was not shocking these women with a stun gun for the purpose of killing them but, rather, it would appear, with a purely 'sadistic purpose.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no evidence exists, beyond the allegations set forth by the defense, that [the trial judge] knew either Denny Mason or his alleged business partner”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] federal investigation of a judge does not by itself create an appearance of impropriety sufficient to warrant disqualification.”
3 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.