Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Delva (1991), 39 So. 3d 252 - State v. Montgomery (2010)
1 federal appellate · 120 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Murzyn v. United States · Knight v. State · 408 So. 2d 1091 - Leonard v. Leonard
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fundamental error occurs only when the omission is pertinent or material to what the jury must consider in order to convict.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed fundamental error by failing to instruct the jury on the intent to permanently deprive another of property as [a requisite] element of robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial judge should not convey to a jury any intimation as to the court's opinion of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.