Ridley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin (1983), Tibbs v. Florida (1982)
187 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 Clenney v. State · Ingram v. State · Strong v. State · Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co. v. Benton · Geter 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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On appeals from findings of guilt, the presumption of innocence no longer prevails, the fact finders have determined the credibility of witnesses, the fact finders have been convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, and the appellate courts review the evidence only to determine if there is any evidence sufficient to authorize the fact finder to return the verdict of guilty. [Cits.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the verdict is decidedly and strongly against the weight of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ricketts v. Williams
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.