Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2025
4 federal appellate · 5 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 10 Cal. 3d 857 - In Re Yurko · Jones v. State · Hanson v. State · Reed v. State · Fite 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that [the defendant] then faced the unpleasant alternative of testifying on direct examination regarding the prior convictions in an attempt, as he says, to remove their 'sting', or exposing himself to impeachment on cross-examination, does not compel us to burden this fundamental right [to testify].” In Johnson, 761 P.2d at 491 , we noted:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodd 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.