State v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2012
19 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Oliveaux · 448 So. 2d 676 - State v. Captville · 488 So. 2d 965 - State v. Rosiere · 425 So. 2d 1222 - State v. Trahan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assuming every fact to be proved that the evidence tends to prove, in order to convict, it must exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“One does not need to be in actual possession of a controlled dangerous substance to support a conviction; constructive possession is sufficient to convict. A person may be in constructive possession of a drug even though it is not in his physical custody, if it is subject to his dominion and control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.