State v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Roth (1984), State v. Vasquez (1992)
3 federal appellate · 89 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 · Albernaz v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Scott · Ex parte Lange
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial judge should be prohibited from thereafter increasing the sentence ... has no force where ... Congress has specifically provided that the sentence is subject to appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.