Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Hardaway (2001), Mings v. State (1994)
37 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal · Bennett 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the diligence of the movant, (2) the probable effect' of the testimony at trial, (3) the likelihood of procuring the attendance of the witness in the event of a postponement, and (4) the filing of an affidavit, stating not only what facts the witness would prove, but also that the appellant believes them to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Henderson 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.