State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
277 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Smith (1997)
277 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · 124 Ohio St. 1 - State v. Thayer · United States v. Nolan · Gillison 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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what the evidence has shown and what reasonable inferences may be drawn therefrom.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“'personal opinions of guilt are predicated upon the evidence, though frowned upon, they are not deemed to be prejudicially erroneous.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The right of silence, while singular in the constitutional grant, may be plural in application. That right, once invoked by an accused while under accusation, is not waived by reason of defendant testifying at the trial."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.