397 So. 2d 277 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2014 · most notably Johnson v. Florida (1981), 461 So. 2d 109 - Ruffin v. Wainwright (1984)
2 federal appellate · 76 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Rodriguez v. New York · Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · 365 So. 2d 704 - Smith 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence of other crimes is relevant if it casts light on the character of the crime for which the accused is being prosecuted, such as when it shows either motive, intent, absence of mistake, or identity.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State · Heiney v. State“Among the purposes for which a collateral crime may be admitted is establishment of the entire context out of which the criminal action occurred.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"prior" means prior to the sentencing of the defendant and does not mean prior to the commission of the murder for which he is being sentenced. The interpretation of "prior" advanced by [the defendant] is unreasonable particularly in view of the fact that a defendant may have committed a murder for which he is not apprehended until many years later and during the course of these years he may have a long history of significant criminal activity.”
4 later decisions 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.