State v. Ridge’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1988
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Van Dusen v. State · State v. Childs · State v. Severns · State v. Cox
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our statute removes any common-law penalty distinctions for participating in a crime as an accessory before the fact or as a principal in the second degree. An accessory before the fact and a principal in the second degree are guilty of the offense and are to be punished the same as the principal in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Payton
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.