Stover v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 1979 · most notably Wimbush v. State (1939), 18 Ala. App. 430 - Windom v. State (1922)
2 federal appellate · 85 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 Powell v. Folmar · Wickard v. State
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It would have been good grounds for challenge for cause of any jurors who may have tried the said [companion case] * * * but the fact that all or some of the members of the general venire were present in court when [the companion case] * * * was tried did not afford, a revisable ground for quashing the venire and refusing to continue the case. Moreover, the action of the trial court in refusing to continue the cause was discretionary. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nickerson v. State
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.