Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1987 · most notably Hensley v. State (1969), Alldredge v. State (1959)
40 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 Brown v. State · May v. State · Weer v. State · Sharp v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"From the facts we have recited, which are undisputed, we think the jury could logically infer that the unlawful conduct of the appellant was the proximate cause of [the victim's] death. Indeed it would seem difficult, if not impossible, to reach any other conclusion." Id., 233 Ind. at 498 , 120 N.E.2d at 178 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keel“[The victim] was lying in the seat with his head back over to the right side of the car, to the back, in a kind of a twisted position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keel“was slumped over the seat and the whole side of his head was bashed in ... blood was squirting all over.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keel
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.