Ring v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Estelle v. Williams (1976), Holland v. State (1988)
29 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 Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Rodriquez v. United States · Cheng Fu Sheng v. United States Immigration & Naturalization Service · Brumfield v. State · Brooks v. State of Texas
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]efore it may be said that a trial judge denied an accused a fair trial by failing to conduct a sanity hearing or inquiry, it must appear that the facts and circumstances which came to the court's attention were sufficient to indicate the necessity of such hearing or inquiry....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Valdez v. State““. . . It is well established, however, that the court need not hear evidence unless an issue is made of the same. Zepeda v. State, 109 Tex.Cr.R. 473 , 7 S.W.2d 527 ; Holloway v. State, 148 Tex.Cr.R. 33 , 184 S.W.2d 479 ; Parrish v. State, 170 Tex.Cr.R. 186 , 339 S.W.2d 670 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State“at the outset a somewhat unusual procedure was here employed [in] accord[ing appellant] a bifurcated trial at his request upon a plea of guilty”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carroll 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.