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← 250 La. 277 - State v. Stokes

State v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
3
states following
April 1979
most recently cited

50 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Amos v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Gibbs v. Burke · Lee v. Tillotson

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(t)he evidentiary fact offered `does not need to have strong, full, superlative, probative value * * * or to produce persuasion by its sole and intrinsic force, but merely to be worth consideration by the jury * * *'.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence.”
    1 later decision 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.