Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist
← 2015 ND 212 - State v. Rufus

State v. Rufus’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1591 (§ 112 of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000)

Relies on Smith v. United States · State v. Manke · Greywind v. State · Schweigert v. Provident Life Insurance Co. · State v. Berger

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]e look only to the evidence and reasonable- inferences most favorable to the verdict to ascertain if there is substantial evidence to warrant the conviction. A conviction rests upon insufficient evidence only when, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution and giving the prosecution the benefit of all inferences reasonably to be drawn in its favor, no rational fact finder could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Words of a statute are given their plain, ordinary, and commonly understood meaning unless a contrary intention plainly appears.”
    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.