Ratcliff v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1985
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frison v. State · Parks v. State · Blankenship v. State · Bradley v. State · O'BRIEN 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The charge as given in this case is substantially in the same terms as the charge which is recommended in Willson’s Criminal Forms, Seventh Edition, Section 3559. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkinson 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.