Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably McClain v. State (1996), Cargill v. State (1986)
81 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Agurs
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no prosecutor there, and no issues to resolve except to set a date for such a confrontation [with the prosecutor], at which time [the defendant] would be represented by an attorney, and to determine if [the defendant] needed the court to appoint an attorney. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. O'KELLEY v. State“"In considering this evidence [of extrinsic crimes], the jury does not attempt to decide whether particular elements have been proved, but instead makes a unique, individualized judgment regarding the punishment that a particular person deserves. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Burgess v. State“Brady itself does not require the pre-trial disclosure of exculpatory evidence and is not violated when the evidence is presented to the jury at trial. Castell v. State, 250 Ga. 776 (2b) ( 301 SE2d 234 ) (1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. State
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.