State v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Ring (2003)
2 federal appellate · 171 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Doyle v. Ohio · Arizona v. Youngblood · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court is presumed to know and follow the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendant was convicted of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder. The murders occurred in the same place and resulted from the same disturbance. Moreover, both murders “were committed by [defendant] in a relatively short period of time in what can be fairly viewed as one continuous course of criminal conduct.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing any physical injury to another person; 2. Intentionally placing another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury; or 3. Knowingly touching another person with the intent to injure, insult, or provoke such person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walden
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.