Ransom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Johnson v. State (2002), Vanderbilt v. State (1981)
57 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 Albrecht v. State · Ford v. State · Owens v. State · Cobb v. State · Caldwell 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The common distinguishing characteristic may be the proximity in time and place of the extraneous offense to the offense for which the accused is being tried. Or, the common element may be the mode of commission of the crimes, or the mode of dress of the perpetrator, or any other element which marks both crimes as having been committed by the same person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dickey v. State · Walker v. State“Under Ford, evidence [of an extraneous offense] to rebut alibi was held to be admissible [only] if it placed the accused at a place where he claimed not to be, or if the evidence showed the impossibility of the alibi, even if the two offenses were dissimilar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickey v. State“apparently overlooks the well-established requirement that before any extraneous offense is admissible the offense must be clearly proven and the accused shown to have been its perpetrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dickey 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.