State v. Ralls’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Stepney (1983), State v. Pinnock (1992)
156 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 · United States v. Wade · Griffin v. California · Allen v. United States · State v. Evans
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not unmindful that a judge occupies a role of inherent power and dignity that commands a deference from the jury impossible to appraise precisely and that `[w]hat he tells the jury . . . has great weight with them.' LaChase v. Sanders, 142 Conn. 122 , *Page 784 124. . . . The charge to the jury, however, must be read as a whole, and an attempt to assert reversible error by culling a single phrase or inaccurate statement must fail unless it is reasonably probable that the jury were misled. State v. Tropiano, 158 Conn. 412 , 433 . . ., cert. denied, 398 U.S. 949 . . .; Penna v. Esposito, 154 Conn. 212 , 215 . . .; Allard v. Hartford, 151 Conn. 284 , 292 . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. O'Brien v. Neiditz
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.