Ridgeway v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Hoile v. State (2008), B. SIFRIT v. State (2004)
45 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 Walczak v. State · Maryland v. Kanaras · Fabian v. State · Matthews v. State · State v. Sayre
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Illegal sentence. The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““when the trial court has allegedly imposed a sentence not permitted by law, the issue should ordinarily be reviewed ... even if no objection was made in the trial court. Such review and correction of an illegal sentence is especially appropriate in light of the fact that Rule 4-345(a), formerly Rule 774 a, provides that ‘[t]he court may correct an illegal sentence at any time.’ Thus, a defendant who fails to object to the imposition of an illegal sentence does not waive forever his right to challenge that sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery 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.