Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2007 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990)
6 federal appellate · 59 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 Chapman v. State of California · Jackson v. Denno · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Cupp v. Naughten · Boyd v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Phillips got in the trunk of the car and when he was released from the trunk found that they were in the woods. Phillips and his stepson were ordered to lie on the ground. Phillips then heard shots fired. When Phillips regained consciousness he discovered that Bulloch was dead. In his confession, the appellant stated that he shot the boy in the head while his cohorts also shot at the victims. Phillips had been shot in the temple and wrist. He managed to get to a nearby house and the sheriff was summoned.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we the jurors conclude that this act was both horrible and inhuman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Godfrey v. Georgia
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.