State v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably State v. Recor (1988), State v. Cole (1988)
70 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 Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The report of the presentence investigation shall contain any prior criminal record of the defendant and such information on his characteristics, his financial condition, and the circumstances affecting his behavior as may be helpful in imposing sentence . . . and such other information as may be required by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Helton“[P]lain error will be found only in a rare and extraordinary case where the error is an obvious one and so grave and serious as to strike at the very heart of a defendant's constitutional rights....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re GS“not [to] be sentenced on the basis of materially untrue information,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kimmick
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.