State v. Ringler’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1983
18 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 Schmid v. Eslick · Knox v. Barnard · Honick v. Metropolitan Street-railway Co. · Houghton v. Sabine Lumber Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of the trial court to instruct the jury on the law applicable to the theory of both the prosecution and the accused so far as they are supported by any competent evidence and are germane to the issues raised on the charge in the information.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamrick · State v. Wilson
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.