420 So. 2d 591 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Eddings v. Oklahoma · Enmund v. Florida · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Johnson v. Florida · Knight 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In contrast, Ruffin was present, he assisted co-defendant Hall in the killing of Karol Hurst, raped her along with his partner, knew that Hall was going to kill her and made no effort to interfere with the killing and then continued on the joint venture, utilizing Mrs. Hurst’s vehicle to drive to the convenience store ... “The evidence is abundantly clear and sufficient to demonstrate Ruffin’s joint participation in the premeditated murder of Karol Hurst, and this is the distinction between this case and the Enmund’s case and that case is therefore not applicable to this proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gillies“Evidence is abundantly clear and sufficient to demonstrate Ruffin's joint participation in the premeditated murder of Karol Hurst”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tison v. Arizona
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.