Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Davis v. State (2010), Mays v. State (2010)
27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco))
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · Rock v. Arkansas · Crane v. Kentucky
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may, in a particular case, be excluded under other evidentiary rules, such as Rules 403 or 703-705, if the probative value of the proffered evidence is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, if the expert is insufficiently qualified, or the testimony is insufficiently relevant or reliable under our state’s guidelines for expert testimony. Such evidence may also be excluded if it does not truly negate the required mens rea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mays v. State“(a) It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that, at the time of the conduct charged, the actor, as a result of severe mental disease or defect, did not know that his conduct was wrong. (b) The term “mental diséase or defect” does not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all prosecutions for murder, the state or the defendant shall be permitted to offer testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing ... together with all relevant facts and circumstances going to show the condition of the mind of the accused at the time of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith 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.