481 So. 2d 312 - Ruffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State (1987), 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991)
43 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 Britt v. North Carolina · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 460 So. 2d 778 - May v. State · Barnes v. State · Weathersby 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the propriety of his or her sitting is a question to be decided by the judge and is subject to review only in case of manifest abuse of discretion.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Moffett · Cantrell v. State“The judge of a court shall not preside on the trial of any cause where the parties, or either of them, shall be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity, or where he may be interested in the same, or wherein he may have been of counsel, except by the consent of the judge and of the parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Only when the verdict is so contrary to the overwhelming weight of the evidence that to allow it to stand would sanction an unconscionable injustice will this Court disturb it on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.