Stidham v. Sowers’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2020
5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Carafas v. J · Peyton v. Rowe · McNally v. Hill · Blitz v. United States · Tucker v. Peyton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the trial judge that the principles of justice and fairness demand that Stidham's sentence for Simple Escape commence on the date of its imposition . . . and not on the date his sentence for Armed Robbery was declared invalid.”
1 later decision 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.