People v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 117 Wis. 2d 359 - State v. Neave (1984), State v. Natividad (1974)
25 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 Gonzalez v. Virgin Islands
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Otherwise, it would be possible for a defendant to remain silent throughout the trial, and take a chance of a favorable verdict — failing in which, he could secure a new trial upon the ground that he did not understand the language in which the testimony was given. The absurdity of such a proposition is self-evident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.