Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Williams v. State (1991), 202 Ga. App. 195 - Hunter v. State (1991)
134 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. State · Bacon v. State · United States v. Hadfield · State v. Johnson
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule is that on a prosecution for a particular crime, evidence which in any manner shows or tends to show that the accused has committed another crime wholly independent from that for which he is on trial, even though it be a crime of the same sort, is irrelevant and inadmissible. 2”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be admitted if it is substantially relevant for some purpose other than to show a probability that the defendant committed the crime on trial because he is a man of criminal character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“noted that had the State presented evidence of similarity in the case during trial as it had done in the USCR 31.3(B) hearing at which the prosecutor stated in his place the relevant facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.