Ray v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
238 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Rutledge v. United States (1996), United States v. Sullivan (1990)
238 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Martin v. Wainwright · United States v. Sandoval
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liability to pay th[e] total depends on the validity of each of his ... convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on any person convicted of an offense against the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the District Court imposed a $50 assessment on each count”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dhinsa v. Krueger
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.