Ragland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Estate of Dolbeer (1906), 570 So. 2d 703 - Newsome v. State (1990)
39 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 Burney v. Torrey · Pierson v. State · Rogers v. State · Yarbrough v. State · Kennedy v. First National Bank
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . It is equally clear, that the information received at the hour it was, by defendant, through his daughter’s letter, whether she told the truth or not, — that deceased had seduced her, —was competent evidence to be considered with all the other evidence in the case, as bearing on the plea of insanity.....” Ragland v. State, 125 Ala. 12, 28 , 27 So. 983 , 987.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmore v. State
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.