State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Ramirez (1994), State v. Greenway (1991)
26 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 Scharffe v. Perkins · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Booth v. Maryland · United States v. Henry · Poland v. Arizona
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actions were the result of his heavy use of alcohol and drugs preceding his meeting with the victims and a well-developed habit of acting out on socially unacceptable impulses while under the influence of such intoxicants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct had been impaired by his longterm use of drugs and alcohol”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kayer v. Ryan“Stevens' condition at the time of the offense was a major and contributing cause of his conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.