Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably State v. Bell (1998), Hadder v. State (1965)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 86 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 Allen v. Williamson · Howard v. Fleming · Wilson v. State · Adams, Nelson, and Timanus v. State · Prescoe 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not deem it essential for the protection of a defendant's constitutional rights that he be advised by the court of his right against self-incrimination when he is represented by counsel.... Here, the appellant was called to the stand by his counsel and in such a case there is no requirement that the court advise him of his right to refuse to testify.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Evidence of declarations and acts, which are an immediate accompaniment of the act charged and so closely connected with the main fact as to constitute a part of it, and without which the main fact might not be properly understood, are admissible as a part of the res gestae. The test as to whether a declaration or act offered in evidence is part of the res gestae is whether it was contemporaneous with the commission of the crime and so connected with it as to illustrate its character. Whether such a declaration or act is an immediate accompaniment is tested, not by the closeness of time, but by casual [causal] connection. A definite limit of time cannot be arbitrarily fixed for the reason that so long as the main transaction continues, declarations and acts emanating from it become a part of it. [citations omitted.] [ 232 Md. at 40 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mouzone v. State“she had been beaten by two white men * * * that they had started the fire in the bed and on the chair * * * [and] that they had tied her up.” The Court held that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mouzone 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.