Stamper v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Jenkins v. Commonwealth (1992), State v. Mott (1997)
63 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Sorrells v. United States · Gooding v. United States · Fisher 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The state of knowledge in the fields of medicine and psychiatry is subject to constant advance and change. The classifications and gradations applied to mental illnesses, disorders, and defects are frequently revised. The courts cannot, and should not, become dependent upon these subtle and shifting gradations for the resolution of each specific case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In exercising his [or her] discretion in this regard, the judge must be guided not only by the true state of his [or her] impartiality, but also by the public perception of his [or her] fairness, in order that public confidence in the integrity of the judiciary may be maintained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The use of expert evidence has been approved in some jurisdictions to show ‘diminished capacity,’ . . . and in others to show, by circumstantial evidence, that the requisite specific intent did not in fact exist. . . . The first theory represents ‘a fundamental change in the common law theory of [criminal] responsibility,’ . . . and we decline to adopt it. The second approach has been characterized in our holdings as an invasion, by expert opinion on the ultimate fact in issue, of the province of the factfinder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.