Rufer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably Dean v. State (1982), Wallace v. State (1990)
35 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 Loyd v. State · Cogdell v. United States · Elmore v. State · Langley v. State · Hoskins v. State
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be categorized as fundamental error and thus to transcend our procedural requirements, the error must be blatant, and the potential for harm must be substantial and appear clearly and prospectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. State“subject to the same penalties and the same judicial discretion in their imposition as was the principle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Haynes 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.