State v. Stepney’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 424 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 431 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Berry v. Loiseau (1992), State v. Oquendo (1992)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 424 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 Franks v. Delaware · Cupp v. Naughten · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wong Tai v. United States · Goldstein v. United States
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 431 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state has a duty to inform a defendant, within reasonable limits, of the time when the offense charged was alleged to have been committed. The state does not have a duty, however, to disclose information which the state does not have. Neither the sixth amendment of the United States constitution nor article first, § 8, of the Connecticut constitution requires that the state choose a particular moment as the time of an offense when the best information available to the state is imprecise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Though generally inadmissible, hearsay may be admitted if there is sufficient probability that the statement is reliable, if the evidence contained in the statement is necessary to the resolution of the case, and if the trial court concludes that admitting the statement is in the interests of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were therefore admissions, and the trial court did not err in admitting them as exceptions to the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stepney v. Lopes
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.