Ray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2002
9 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 Shell v. Commonwealth · Brennon v. Commonwealth · Day v. Commonwealth · Crenshaw v. Commonwealth · Meadors v. Commonwealth
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) General Rule: In both criminal and civil litigation, an extra judicial statement by a participant, in a conspiracy may be introduced as an “admission” against all other participants in that conspiracy if the statement was made in furtherance of the conspiracy.... (2) A statement made after the objective of a conspiracy has been accomplished is not admissible under this rule....”
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.