Bray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1985
7 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 72 Okla. Crim. 195 - Nemecek v. State · 77 Okla. Crim. 1 - Fields v. State · 36 Okla. Crim. 57 - White 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore, since the officer’s testimony identified the accused by linking him to the weapon used, it tended to prove an element in the state’s case — the identity of Ledford’s assailant — and therefore, it is the opinion of this Court that the trial judge ruled correctly under these circumstances in admitting the testimony, even though it was coincidentally evidence of another crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buchanan v. State
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.