420 So. 2d 826 - Stephens v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2017
24 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 Aldridge v. State · 366 So. 2d 336 - Summers v. State · Miles v. State · Thomas v. State · 397 So. 2d 223 - Corley 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In considering a petition for writ of error coram nobis, a court may and should determine the `reasonableness of the allegations made in the petition and the probability or improbability of their truth.' [Citations omitted.] A court is not bound to accept at face value the allegations of the petition. [Citation omitted.]"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n a petition for writ of error coram nobis, mere naked allegations that a constitutional right has been violated will not suffice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] hearing [on a coram nobis petition] should not be granted without affidavits sufficiently refuting a record that appears correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLemore 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.