Ruark v. Colorado’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986 · most notably Garrison v. State of Louisiana (1964), Freedman v. Maryland (1965)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 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 Douglas v. People of State of California · Smith v. Crouse · Etchieson v. Texas · Smith v. Crouse · Pea v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Colorado for consideration in light of Douglas v. [People of State of] California, 372 U.S. 353 , 83 S.Ct. 814, 9 L.Ed.2d 811.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.