Ludy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Gravens v. State (2005), Foster v. State (2003)
1 federal appellate · 47 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 Drollinger v. State · Norton v. State · Tewell v. State · Jacks v. State · Dill 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(instructions that unnecessarily emphasize one particular evidentiary fact ... have long been disapproved.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A conviction may be based solely on the uncorroborated testimony of the alleged victim if such testimony establishes each element of any crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies to Ludy and others whose cases properly preserved the issue and whose cases are now pending on direct appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Foster v. State · Tinkham 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.