Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Beausoliel v. United States (1939), Scadden v. State (1987)
4 federal appellate · 33 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The instructions must and should be predicated upon the evidence in the case, and when the evidence shows the accused to be guilty of the higher grade of the offense or not guilty the court is not required to instruct upon the lower grades””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gonzales“is to be regarded as resisting, no matter what the actual state of her mind may be at the time”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.