503 So. 2d 222 - Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably 592 So. 2d 114 - Hansen v. State (1991), 517 So. 2d 1346 - Lockett v. State (1987)
45 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 Neil v. Biggers · Robert C. Gilliard, Jr. v. Mississippi · Johnson v. State · 428 So. 2d 576 - Gilliard v. State · United States v. Ojala
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only where there is an absence of substantial credible evidence supporting it.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Opportunity of the witness to view the accused at the time of the crime; 2. The degree of attention exhibited by the witness; 3. The accuracy of the witness's prior description of the criminal; 4. The level of certainty exhibited by the witness at the confrontation; 5. The length of time between the crime and the confrontation.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nathan v. State · Gray v. State“facts of substantial relevance to the matter of whether the accused is guilty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.