Stofer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1932
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, according to the inflexible rule in all such cases, indispensable that all the facts and circumstances constituting the offense, such as time (when it is of the essence of the offense), place, manner and occasion of committing it, should be set forth in the indictment with such certainty and particularity as to give the accused notice of what he is required to meet and defend himself ■ against. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Aley
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.