State v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2017
21 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 State v. Weeks · United States v. Williford · State v. Harris · State v. Agee · State v. Albert
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ncorrect statements of law in closing arguments are improper, and upon [a] defendant's objection, the trial judge should ... sustain [the] objection and instruct the jury to disregard the statement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[E]vidence, not part of the crime charged but pertaining to the chain of events explaining the context, motive and set-up of the crime, is properly admitted if linked in time and circumstances with the charged crime, or [if it] forms an integral and natural part of an account of the crime, or is necessary to complete the story of the crime for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to sustain defendant's objection and instruct the jury to disregard”
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.