State v. Ryerson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Pinnock (1992), State v. Morant (1997)
112 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Linkletter v. Walker
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a rule, judicial decisions apply retroactively. . . . Indeed, a legal system based on precedent has a built-in presumption of retroactivity. . . . If a new constitutional doctrine is truly right, we should not reverse lower courts which have accepted it, nor should we affirm those which have rejected the very arguments we have embraced. . . . It is clear that CT Page 7827 [c]omplete retroactive effect is most appropriate where a new constitutional principle is designed to enhance the accuracy of criminal trials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a new decision enlarges the constitutional rights of criminal defendants by overruling established precedent, the justifiable reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and the potentially disruptive effect on the administration of justice by retroactive application of the new standards . . . may militate against retroactive application of the new rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]n illegal arrest may impair the fairness of a subsequent prosecution only where evidence obtained as a direct consequence of that arrest is admitted against the defendant at trial.”
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.