Stebens v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1979 · most notably Converse v. Hand (1959), Andrews v. Hand (1962)
34 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 Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Newhall v. Le Breton · Mahon v. Justice · Pettibone v. Nichols · Cook v. Hart
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in the Constitution or laws of the United States which exempts an offender, brought before the courts of a State for an offense against its laws, from trial and punishment, even though brought from another State into the jurisdiction by unlawful violence, or by abuse of legal process. (Ker v. Illinois, [1886] 119 U. S. 436 , 7 S. Ct. 225 , 30 L. Ed. 421 ; and Mahon v. Justice, 127 U. S. 700 , 8 S. Ct. 1204 , 32 L. Ed. 283 .)” (p. 306.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wharton
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.