403 So. 2d 154 - Ritter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Ex Parte Baldwin (1984), Wright v. Hopper (1999)
6 federal appellate · 60 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Brady v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Dayton Christian Schools, Inc. · Parker v. North Carolina
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reversed and remanded to the Court of Criminal Appeals with directions to that Court to grant a new trial under the authority of Beck v. Alabama , 447 U.S. 625 , 100 S.Ct. 2382 , 65 L.Ed.2d 392 (1980), and Beck v. State , 396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1980). We believe this result is compelled by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Beck and is consistent with the interpretation of that decision reached by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Evans v. Britton , 639 F.2d 221 (1981), which involved Ritter's partner in this crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The majority of the Court, by directing that the Court of Criminal Appeals reverse the judgment of conviction and sentence and remand the case for a new trial, has mandated that all pre-Beck death penalty convictions and sentences be set aside and new trials ordered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. State“concurring specially in denial of rehearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Baldwin
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.