State v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Ortiz (2009), State v. Michael H. (2009)
45 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 State v. Torres · State v. Michaels · State v. Woodward · United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. · State v. Salazar
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statement offered merely to prove that it was made, and not to prove truth, is characterized as a `verbal act' that is admissible irrespective of any limitations on hearsay testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rivera“[S]tatements supporting the reasonableness of [police] conduct may be admissible if relevant to a fact of consequence and not offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rivera“Out-of-court statements that are not offered for the truth of the matter asserted do not fall within the definition of hearsay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Rivera
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.