State v. Stumpf’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 382 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
28 federal appellate · 382 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Proffitt v. Florida · State v. Maurer · California v. Ramos · State v. Smith
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder R.C. 2929.03(F), a trial court or three-judge panel may rely upon and cite the nature and circumstances of the offense as reasons supporting its finding that the aggravating circumstances were sufficient to outweigh the mitigating factors.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sowell · State v. Gumm““The most acceptable meaning to be given to the expression, proof by a preponderance, seems to be proof which leads the [trier of fact] to find the existence of the contested fact is more probable than its nonexistence.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“R.C. 2929.04(B) requires the jury, trial court, or three-judge panel to 'consider, and weigh against the aggravating circumstances proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the nature and circumstances of the offense ***.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lawson · State v. Loza
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.