Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 637 So. 2d 871 - Perry v. State (1994)
54 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 416 So. 2d 383 - Johnson v. State · 297 So. 2d 888 - Pittman v. State · 385 So. 2d 1298 - Norman v. State · Stover v. Hill · 356 So. 2d 1179 - Dase 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court instructs the jury that if you find that the State of Mississippi has failed to prove any or more of the essential elements of capital murder involving Charles Richardson beyond a reasonable doubt, then it is your duty to find the defendant not guilty of capital murder of Charles Richardson. If you find the defendant not guilty of the capital murder of Charles Richardson, you may continue your deliberations to determine whether or not the defendant is guilty of murder. If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that: 1. On or about the 17th day of July, 2001 in Lee County, Mississippi; 2. The defendant, Derrick Demond Walker did kill Charles Richardson, a human being, without authority of law by any means or in any manner; 3. By deliberate design to effect the death of Charles Richardson; then it is your sworn duty to find the defendant guilty of murder. Should the State of Mississippi fail to prove any one or more of the essential elements of murder beyond a reasonable doubt then you shall find the defendant not guilty of murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The killing of a human being without malice, by the act, procurement, or culpable negligence of another, while such other is engaged in the perpetration of any felony, except rape, burglary, arson, or robbery, or while such other is attempting to commit any felony besides such as are enumerated and excepted, shall be manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]nly in cases where the evidence could only justify a verdict of murder, should a requested manslaughter instruction be refused.”
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.