416 So. 2d 528 - State v. Ratcliff’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 360 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King (1983), 428 So. 2d 444 - State v. Seiss (1983)
1 federal appellate · 360 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 374 So. 2d 1195 - State v. Spencer · 406 So. 2d 1331 - State v. Edwards · 356 So. 2d 1370 - State v. Martin
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“errorless counsel [or] counsel judged ineffective by hindsight, but counsel reasonably likely to render effective assistance.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“enables the district judge in a proper case to order a full evidentiary hearing.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence is not hearsay if introduced to show that an utterance occurred or that a conversation has taken place rather than to show the truth of the matter. State v. Naas, 409 So.2d 535 (La.1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.