Ruffin v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
244
cited by 244 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
13
states following
August 2010
most recently cited
123 federal appellate · 32 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2010 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), United States v. Moya-Gomez (1988)
123 federal appellate · 32 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia
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.