Stanley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2013 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Stanley v. Zant (1983)
6 federal appellate · 56 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 · Faretta v. California · Escobedo v. Illinois · Gregg v. Georgia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the sheer savagery of Ivon Stanley's conduct may have been equalled by others, it has seldom if ever been exceeded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stanley v. Zant
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.