State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2024
6 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Ring 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prior to August 13, 1999, defendant had been romantically involved with Amy Cruickshank. On August 13, Cruickshank obtained a temporary relief from abuse order, which was served on defendant that afternoon. In the early hours of August 14, defendant broke into the motel room where Cruickshank was residing and where she was asleep with her boyfriend, Christopher Massey. Defendant attacked Cruickshank and Massey with a hammer, injuring both of them and driving Massey from the room. Defendant dragged Cruickshank by the hair out of the room and toward his van parked outside. Defendant had equipped the van with ropes on the front passenger seat in order to restrain Cruickshank, as well as with gasoline and flares with which defendant intended to set the vehicle on fire. As defendant dragged Cruickshank towards the van, he was apprehended by several neighbors, who restrained him until the police arrived. Defendant voluntarily admitted to the police that he had assaulted the victims and further indicated that he had intended to go down the road and set the vehicle on fire with Cruickshank inside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Stevens“First, the Defendant had a well-developed plan to kill Ms. Cruickshank in a particularly cruel and painful manner. It is clear that he did not want simply to kill her; he wanted her to feel terror and pain and to suffer as he did so. Were it not for the intervention of some very brave friends and neighbors, he might well have succeeded. Second, this is not the Defendant’s first attempt to kill. In 1977, he tried to shoot his wife and at least two of his children. In that case it was only through blind luck that he did not succeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Stevens
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.