State v. Rammel’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Bishop (1988), State v. Rimmasch (1989)
52 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 Smith v. Illinois · People v. Collins · State v. McKenzie · McKenzie v. Montana · 3 Ohio App. 3d 321 - State v. Sims
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]robabilities cannot conclusively establish that a single event did or did not occur and are particularly inappropriate when used to establish facts not susceptible to quantitative analysis, such as whether a particular individual is telling the truth at any given time.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McCullar · State v. Peraza“because most suspects lie when initially questioned by police, it would not have been 'unusual' for [the witness] to lie during the first police interrogation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Klenz · State v. Burnett“invites the jury to focus upon a seemingly scientific, numerical conclusion rather than to analyze the evidence before it and decide where truth lies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright · State v. Peraza
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.