Ross v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Mitchell v. Mitchell (1998), Berry v. State (1998)
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 Green v. United States · Page v. State · Light v. State · Waller v. United States · Tillman 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do you know of any reason why judgment should not be pronounced upon you?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When .the defendant appears for sentencing, the court shall inform the de fendant of the verdict of the jury or the finding of the court. The court shall afford counsel for the defendant an opportunity to speak on behalf of the defendant. The defendant may also make a statement personally in the defendant’s own behalf and, before pronouncing sentence, the court shall ask the defendant whether the -defendant wishes to- make such a statement. Sentence shall then be pronounced; unless a sufficient cause is alleged or appears to the court for delay in sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The purpose of the right of allocution is to give the trial court the opportunity to consider the facts and circumstances relevant to the sentencing of $p 59 the defendant in the case before it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vicory v. State · Phelps 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.