Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably Brown v. State (1971), Alexander v. State (1987)
27 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 Wilson v. Jones · 164 Tex. Crim. 630 - Orozco v. State · Smith v. State · 168 Tex. Crim. 160 - Hunter v. State · 165 Tex. Crim. 405 - Mauldin 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the provisions of Article 38.29, V.A.C.C.P., the fact that a witness has been charged with an offense is inadmissible for the purpose of impeaching him unless the charge has resulted in a final conviction. Hunter v. State, 168 Tex.Cr.R. 160 , 324 S.W.2d 17 ; Tomlinson v. State, 163 Tex.Cr.R. 44 , 289 S.W.2d 267 . Furthermore the final conviction must be for a felony offense or one involving moral turpitude; Mauldin v. State, 165 Tex.Cr.R. 405 , 308 S.W.2d 36 , and even then, it must not be too remote. If, however, the witness makes blanket statements concerning his exemplary conduct, such as has never been charged or convicted of any offense, then the State may refute such testimony, despite the nature of the conviction used or its remoteness. Orozco v. State, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 630 , 301 S.W.2d 634 and cases cited therein.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. State · Garcia 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.