Ramirez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 99 Ill. 2d 48 - People v. Foster (1983), Herrera v. State (1988)
35 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 King v. State · Hutchinson v. State · 238 So. 2d 75 - State v. Eckroth · 351 So. 2d 332 - Goldberg v. State · Evans v. FLORIDA FARM BUR. CAS. INS. CO.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence that a person aided and abetted another in the commission of an offense, although sufficient to convict the person as a principal in such offense under Section 777.011, Florida Statutes (1977), is insufficient to convict either person of a conspiracy to commit the subject offense.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot, without more, also make each actor a principal in the crime of conspiracy to commit such offense....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The tendency to make the crime so elastic, sprawling and pervasive as to defy meaningful definition”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ashenoff 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.