State v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Davis (1975), State v. Miller (1987)
40 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Bell v. United States · Gore v. United States · Ex parte Lange · Prince v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demonstrably distinguishable criminal offenses”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] charge of possession with intent to distribute ... seeks to condemn the transportation and placement of certain drug substances in the stream of illegal commerce, while an * indictment for distribution looks to the final step in drug trafficking -- transfer to someone else.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.