Stevens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2002 · most notably Burger v. Kemp (1987), Moses v. State (1980)
6 federal appellate · 67 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Moore v. Illinois · Hicks v. State · Bacon v. State · Moore 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Georgia law is abundantly clear that a photograph which is relevant and material to the issues in the case is not excludable on the ground that it would inflame the minds of the jurors to see it. [Cits.]” Stevens v. State, 242 Ga. 34, 38 ( 247 SE2d 838 ) (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mooney v. State“[n]or was he entitled to the statement under Code Ann. § 38-801 (g) . . .” The court emphasized that Brown v. State, 238 Ga. 98 ( 231 SE2d 65 ),”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chambliss v. State
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.