Ramirez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 808 So. 2d 145 - Darling v. State (2002), Murray v. State (1997)
67 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 Frye v. United States · Johnson v. Florida · Zeigler v. Florida · 513 So. 2d 1057 - Florida Bar v. Hosner · Bundy v. Florida
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. State · Bevil v. State“the burden is on the proponent of the evidence to prove [by the greater weight of the evidence] the general acceptance of both the underlying scientific principle and the testing procedures used to apply that principle to the facts of the case at hand.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brim v. State · Murray v. State“[t]he principle inquiry under the Frye test is whether the scientific theory or discovery from which an expert derives an opinion is reliable.”
5 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.