Stout v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005 · most notably Prejean v. Blackburn (1989), Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 Tollett v. Henderson · Zant v. Stephens · Scharffe v. Perkins · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Johnson v. Texas
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitute[d] a continuing serious threat to society”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice or any other arbitrary factor; and 2. Whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind or an aggravated battery to the victim”
2 later decisions 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.