Stanford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 1978
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cordray v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. Instructions must be considered as a whole and individual sentences should be considered in light of entire charge.” ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ‡ ⅜ ‡ “5. Questioned words in an instruction should be interpreted in favor of consistency with remainder of instruction rather than isolated to create conflict within instruction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sharp v. State
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.