Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1997 · most notably Zant v. Stephens (1983), State v. Jenkins (1984)
20 federal appellate · 26 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia · Boulden v. Holman · Maxwell v. Bishop · Gregg 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial history of serious assaultive criminal convictions”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 397 So. 2d 1258 - State v. Monroe · William H. Flamer v. State of Delaware Darl Chaffinch Raymond Callaway Harold K. Brode William H. Porter Gary A. Myers Loren C. Meyers Dana Reed James E. Liguori Charles M. Oberly, III Walter Redman Stanley W. Taylor, Acting Warden Warden Robert Snyder William Henry Flamer, Billie Bailey v. Robert Snyder, Warden, Delaware Correctional Center“the evidence supports the jury's findings of the other aggravating circumstances ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In performing the sentence comparison required by Code Ann. § 27-2537(c)(3), this court uses for comparison purposes not only similar cases in which death was imposed, but similar cases in which death was not imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zant v. Stephens
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.