State v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2013
22 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Opper v. United States · Collins v. Youngblood · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Public Utilities Commission
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has infrequently discussed under what conditions it should disregard the doctrine of stare decisis and overturn an established rule of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barber · State v. Stalker“In assessing whether there is sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti, independent of a defendant's statements, this Court assumes the truth of the State's evidence and all reasonable inferences from it in a light most favorable to the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pietrzak · State v. Pineda“any touching of the sexual or other intimate parts of a person done for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire of either party or a third party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Angulo · State v. Ray
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.