Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Flamer v. State (1984), State v. Horn (2004)
25 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Chambers v. Mississippi · Lockett v. Ohio · Bumper v. North Carolina · Patterson v. New York
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All sidebar conferences and chambers conferences during trial shall be recorded unless the trial judge determines, in advance, that neither evidentiary nor substantive issues are involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We say that there must be a “reasonable explanation or excuse” for the extreme disturbance of the actor; and that reasonableness of any explanation or excuse “shall be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the actor’s situation under the circumstances as he believes them to be.” There will be room, of course, for interpretation of the breadth of meaning carried by the word “situation”, precisely the room needed in our view. There will be room for argument as to the reasonableness of the explanations or excuses offered; we think that argument is needed in these terms. The question in the end will be whether the actor’s loss of self-control can be understood in terms that arouse sympathy enough to call for mitigation in the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Magner“A statement which was, at the time of its making, so far contrary to the declarant’s pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject him to civil or criminal liability ... that a reasonable man in his position would not have made the statement unless he believed it to be true. A statement tending to expose the declarant to criminal liability and offered to exculpate the accused is not admissible unless corroborating circumstances clearly indicate the trustworthiness of the statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Outten 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.