State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably State v. Rizzo (2011), Town of New Hartford v. Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority (2009)
2 district · 40 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 Marks v. United States · Whitmore v. Arkansas · Ford v. Wainwright · Negron v. United States · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a fragmented [c]ourt decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of [a majority of the] [j]ustices, the holding of the [c]ourt may be viewed as the position taken by those [m]embers who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We conclude that the [public defender] has not presented any meaningful evidence that the defendant is incom-petent_ In the absence of such evidence, the [public defender] is not entitled to an evidentiary hearing at which it may attempt to establish the defendant’s incompetence and its standing to appear as the defendant’s next friend under Whitmore ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holton 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.