State v. Ralph’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably State v. Hall (1990), State v. Rice (1997)
2 district · 21 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 State v. Ralls · People v. O'Brand · Candelaria v. People · State v. Pappan · State v. Greene
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A defendant cannot avoid cross-examination on matters to which he has testified in chief. When a subject is opened on direct examination, the cross-examination may develop and explore various phases of that subject." (Syl. 1.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burnett · State v. Burnett
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.