State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho (2003), 625 So. 2d 146 - State v. Jackson (1993)
37 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 United States v. Myers · 36 Cal. 3d 604 - People v. Alcala · United States v. Goodwin · United States v. Foutz · Lincoln Grain, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he or she acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“sexual crimes have consistently been classified as offenses in which evidence of other similar sexual conduct has been recognized as having independent relevancy and that such evidence may be admissible whether that conduct involved the complaining witness or third parties. [Citations omitted.] As we said in State v. Craig, [ 219 Neb. 70 ,] 76, 361 N.W.2d [206,] 212 [(1985)]: “[Evidence of repeated incidents may be especially relevant in proving sexual crimes committed against persons otherwise defenseless due to age — either the very young or the elderly. Without proof by other acts of a defendant, sexual offenses against the defenseless, except in cases of the fortuitous presence of an eyewitness, would likely go unpunished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Martin“(1) Any person who subjects another person to sexual penetration and (a) overcomes the victim by force, threat of force, express or implied, coercion, or deception, (b) knew or should have known that the victim was mentally or physically incapable of resisting ... or (c) the actor is nineteen years of age or older and the victim is less than sixteen years of age is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carter
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.