Ratliff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2011
22 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 Lego v. Twomey · Agee v. State · Fisher v. State · 207 So. 2d 108 - Harvey v. State · Johnson 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he voluntariness of a statement and its admissibility in evidence is a question for the court to determine and not a question for the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pierre v. State · Lee v. State“[t]he jury does not pass upon the competency of the confession, but the jury does pass upon the weight and credibility of the confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Craft 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.