Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Romano v. State (1993), Cooper v. State (1978)
35 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Moore v. Illinois
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) The prosecutor should not use arguments calculated to inflame the passions or prejudices of the jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dupree v. State · Grant v. State““ . . [W]hen counsel is not satisfied with the instructions, or desires any particular instructions, it is the duty of counsel to prepare and present to the court such desired instructions and request that it be given. In the absence of such a request, this Court will not reverse the conviction if the instructions given cover the relevant subjects, and accurately instruct on the law in the case. Schapanasky [sic] v. State, Okl. Cr., 478 P.2d 912 (1970).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sam 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.